Cover of Seven fires

Seven fires

the urban infernos that reshaped America

by Peter Charles Hoffer

2006 460 pages eng

"This is the story of how seven urban fires - dramatic and terrible conflagrations in themselves - have together shaped the larger course of American history." "The Boston fire of 1760 set the stage for the American Revolution. The Pittsburgh fire of 1845 proved how adaptable historical memory coul…

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