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Petroleum & public safety : risk management in the Gulf South, 1901-2015 /

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Using an array of research in original sources, including fire prevention publications, newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents and risk management literature, James McSwain reveals how city officials in Houston, Galveston, New Orleans and Mobile created standards based on technical,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McSwain, James B., 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2018]
Series:Making the modern South.
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Gulf States > Safety measures > 20th century.
Petroleum engineering > Gulf States > Safety measures > 20th century.
Risk management > Gulf States > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Petroleum and nineteenth-century risk culture
  • Fire hazards and petroleum risks in Mobile, Alabama, 1894-1910
  • Risk management in the Bayou City : fuel oil in Houston, 1901-1914
  • Competition and conflagration : exploiting and regulating fuel oil in New Orleans, 1943
  • Hazards, risks, and vulnerability : Galveston, Texas, 1901-1937
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue : risk management of flammable liquids in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.