Author: Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Annual Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania for the Years 1873 to 1878
Author: Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Catalogue of Law Books
Author: John D. Parsons
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Petroleum and Public Safety
Author: James B. McSwain
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169145
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169145
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
Journal of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Wisconsin Legislature for the Year ...
Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Internationales und Ausländisches Recht
Author: Internationale Vereinigung für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre zu Berlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian for the ...
Author: Nebraska. State Library
Publisher:
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Category : State libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Law of Extradition, International and Inter-state
Author: Spear
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of the United States of America, and Great Britain and Her Colonies, Relating to the Rights and Liabilities of Gas Companies
Author: Charles Pelham Greenough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas companies
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas companies
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description