Mark Tebeau: 1 book

Book cover of Eating Smoke

Eating Smoke

Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950

by Mark Tebeau
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations...
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