Download or read book Centennial Meeting of the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire Second Monday of April 1852 written by Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Centennial Meeting of the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire written by Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philadelphia Contributionship Centennial anniversary written by Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insuring of Houses from Loss by Fire and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charter and the Deed of Settlement of the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insuring of Houses from Loss by Fire written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Insurance Gazette and Magazine of Useful Knowledge written by Gilbert Eggleson Currie and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations Number IV written by Joseph Stancliffe Davis and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Fire Underwriters Association of the Pacific written by Fire Underwriters' Association of the Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Making of Tocqueville s America written by Kevin Butterfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville famously said that Americans were "forever forming associations" and saw in this evidence of a new democratic sociability--though that seemed to be at odds with the distinctively American drive for individuality. Yet Kevin Butterfield sees these phenomena as tightly related: in joining groups, early Americans recognized not only the rights and responsibilities of citizenship but the efficacy of the law. A group, Butterfield says, isn't merely the people who join it; it's the mechanisms and conventions that allow it to function and, where necessary, to regulate itself and its members. Tocqueville, then, was wrong to see associations as the training grounds of democracy, where people learned to honor one another's voices and perspectives--rather, they were the training grounds for increasingly formal and legalistic relations among people. They were where Americans learned to treat one another impersonally.
Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
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