Download or read book Prometheus Tamed written by Cornel Zwierlein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.