Author: Milwaukee (Wis.). Common CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Milwaukee (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee
Author: Milwaukee (Wis.). Common CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Milwaukee (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Damn the Old Tinderbox!
Author: Matthew J. PriggePublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870208829
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In the dead of an unassuming January night in 1883, Milwaukee’s Newhall House hotel was set on fire. Two hours later, the building—once among the tallest in the nation—lay in ruins and over seventy people were dead. It was a tragedy that brought global notice to Milwaukee, with daring escapes and rescues and heart-wrenching tales of victims burned to death or killed as they leapt from the burning building. From the great horror emerged an even greater string of mysteries: Who had set the fire and who was to blame for the staggering loss of life? The Newhall’s hard-luck barkeeper? A gentleman arsonist? What of the many other unexplained fires at the hotel? Had the Newhall’s management neglected fire safety to boost their profits? Damn the Old Tinderbox! is the gripping tale of one of the Gilded Age’s forgotten calamities, a fire that remains among the deadliest unsolved arsons in American history, and a significant chapter in both the history of Milwaukee and the Midwest.
The Age of Smoke
Author: Frank UekötterPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973502
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr Valley in Germany and western Pennsylvania in the United States, witnessed exponential growth-yet also suffered the greatest damage from coal pollution. These conditions prompted civic activism in the form of "anti-smoke" campaigns to attack the unsightly physical manifestations of coal burning. This early period witnessed significant cooperation between industrialists, government, and citizens to combat the smoke problem. It was not until the 1960s, when attention shifted from dust and grime to hazardous invisible gases, that cooperation dissipated, and protests took an antagonistic turn.The Age of Smoke presents an original, comparative history of environmental policy and protest in the United States and Germany. Dividing this history into distinct eras (1880 to World War I, interwar, post-World War II to 1970), Frank Uekoetter compares and contrasts the influence of political, class, and social structures, scientific communities, engineers, industrial lobbies, and environmental groups in each nation. He concludes with a discussion of the environmental revolution, arguing that there were indeed two environmental revolutions in both countries: one societal, where changing values gave urgency to air pollution control, the other institutional, where changes in policies tried to catch up with shifting sentiments.Focusing on a critical period in environmental history, The Age of Smoke provides a valuable study of policy development in two modern industrial nations, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution. As Uekoetter's work reveals, the cooperative approaches developed in an earlier era offer valuable lessons and perhaps the best hope for future progress.
Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee
Author: Milwaukee (Wis.). Common CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Milwaukee (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Systematic Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Milwaukee
Author: Milwaukee Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of St. Paul, for Year Ending...
Author: Quarterly Index of Additions to the Milwaukee Public Library
Author: Milwaukee Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Journal of the Proceedings of the Common Council
Author: Detroit (Mich.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of St. Paul, for Year Ending...
Author: Saint Paul (Minn.). Common CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Paul (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description