Author: Mobile (Ala.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Charter and Code of Ordinances of the City of Mobile
Author: Mobile (Ala.)Ordinances of the City of Mobile Adopted Since the Publication of the Code of Ordinances of Said City of 1907
Author: The Port of Mobile, Alabama
Author: The Port of Mobile, Alabama, Part 2
Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Port of Mobile, Alabama
Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Carnival in Alabama
Author: Isabel MachadoPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149684260X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or gentrifying) its downtown area. As in many other US cities, urban renewal, integration, and other socioeconomic developments led to white flight, marginalized the African American population, and set the stage for the development of LGBTQ+ community building and subculture. Yet these usually segregated segments of society in Mobile converged once a year to create a common identity, that of a Carnival City. Carnival in Alabama looks not only at the people who participated in Mardi Gras organizations divided by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of “marked bodies” outside of these organizations, or people involved in Carnival through their labor or as audiences (or publics) of the spectacle. It also expands the definition of Mobile’s Carnival “tradition” beyond the official pageantry by including street maskers and laborers and neighborhood cookouts. Using archival sources and oral history interviews to investigate and analyze the roles assigned, inaccessible to, or claimed and appropriated by straight-identified African American men and women and people who defied gender and sexuality normativity in the festivities (regardless of their racial identity), this book illuminates power dynamics through culture and ritual. By looking at Carnival as an “invented tradition” and as a semiotic system associated with discourses of power, it joins a transnational conversation about the phenomenon.
The Charter and the Code of Ordinances of 1897 of the City of Mobile
Author: Mobile (Ala.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal charters
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Ports of Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida
Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description