Author: Henry Augustus OakleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Addresses as President of the National Board of Fire Underwriters of the United States
Author: Henry Augustus OakleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Petroleum and Public Safety
Author: James B. McSwainPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169145
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
Spreading the Word
Author: Peter J. WoshPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Insurance Year Book...
Author: The Insurance Times
Author: Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States
Author: Hayden's Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States
Author: The Eastern Underwriter
Author: The Weekly Underwriter
Author: Alasco Delancey BrighamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description