Prometheus Tamed
| Author | : Cornel Zwierlein |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 563 |
| Release | : 2021-01-11 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9789004431225 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9004431225 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Prometheus Tamed by : Cornel Zwierlein
Download or read book Prometheus Tamed written by Cornel Zwierlein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
