Zwierlein Cornel. Prometheus Tamed: Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900

Brill, 2021. — 564 р. — (Library of Economic History 13).Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of modernities, safe or unsafe.