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| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: The Problem of Fire | 1 | |
| 1 | Workshops of Democracy: The Invention of Volunteer Firefighting | 13 |
| 2 | The Business of Safety: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1800-1850 | 54 |
| 3 | Statistics, Maps, and Morals: Making Fire Risk Objective, 1850-1875 | 89 |
| 4 | Muscle and Steam: Establishing Municipal Fire Departments, 1850-1875 | 126 |
| 5 | Disciplining the City: Everyday Practice and Mapping Risk, 1875-1900 | 169 |
| 6 | Becoming Heroes: A New Standard for Urban Fire Safety, 1875-1900 | 202 |
| 7 | Consuming Safety: Fire Prevention and Fire Risk in the Twentieth Century | 247 |
| 8 | Eating Smoke: Rational Heroes in the Twentieth Century | 285 |
| Conclusion: Fighting Fire in Postwar America | 327 | |
| App. 1 | Firefighting by the Numbers | 343 |
| App. 2 | Firefighting Careers | 348 |
| Abbreviations | 355 | |
| Notes | 357 | |
| Essay on Sources | 401 | |
| Index | 415 |
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