Author: Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004431225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
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.