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Prometheus Tamed Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900 (Library of Economic History)
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.