Prometheus Tamed. Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900

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Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Figures and Tables Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Spaces, Value, Presentism: Premodern Insurance: 1 The Commercial Communication System around 1400 2 Insurance as an Accounting Trick between the World of Nature and the World of Values 3 Premiums of Presentism: Hidden Forces within the History of Law 4 International Trade Law and Insurance as an Achievement of the Moderni 5 Summary Chapter 3 The Danger between Nature and Culture: The Quotidian Threat of Urban Fires in the Premodern Era: 1 The “Reality” of the Danger: Fire Cycles, Fire Frequencies 1.1 The “Fire Gap” 1.2 8,200 Fires in Germany and Austria 1.3 Trends in Fire Frequencies According to Fire Insurance Statistics 1.4 War and Fire Trends 1.5 Climate and Fire Trends 1.6 The Fire Ecology of Hamburg 1.7 Summary 2 The Perception of Danger 2.1 The Theology of Divine Punishment and the Fire Events of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Security Losses, Security Gains 2.2 Visualization and Affect 2.2.1 The Modernity of City Fire Images and Their Dutch Provenance 2.2.2 A Discrepancy: Mythological/Biblical City Fire Paintings vs. the Low Number/Quality of Paintings of “Real” City Fires 2.2.3 Early Modern Image Theory and Disaster Images 2.2.4 Temporalization, Eventfulness and Affect Control 2.2.5 Threat Perception, Security Requirements, and Emotionalization 2.3 Ground Zeros: Visualization and Time Horizons 3 Developmental Trends of “Real-Assecuration”: Fire Policey, Construction 3.1 The Security Regimes between the Late Middle Ages and the Enlightenment and between the City and the Territories 3.1.1 Cologne: An Important Medieval Imperial City282 3.1.2 The German Center of Security Innovations: Hamburg 3.1.3 The State’s “Images” of the City Collective: An Approach to Disaster Memory and to Learning from Disaster (e.g., Prussia) 3.2 Panaceas: from “Local Knowledge” to Science and Back Again to Popular Enlightenment 4 Summary Chapter 4 The Epochal Threshold of the Security Regimes 1680–1700 1 Laboratories of Innovation: Hamburg and Berlin—1680–1700 1.1 London: Nicholas Barbon 1.1.1 Protostatistics, Protoprobabilistic Reasoning, and the Conflict between State and Private Economies 1.1.2 Nicholas Barbon: Building Speculator and Growth Theorist 1.1.3 Insurance Innovation and the “Financial Revolution” 1.2 Hamburg and Leibniz 1.2.1 The Hamburg General Fire Fund: Innovation without an Inventor 1.2.2 Transformation into an Element of Economic Provisioning: Leibniz 1.2.2.1 Before Leibniz: The Rulership Contract and Disaster Insurance around 1600 1.2.2.2 Leibniz and the Territorial Institutionalization of Insurance 1.2.2.3 “Real-Assecuration”: The Founding of the Berlin Academy and Fire Association 1.3 Summary: The Power of Analogies 2 Religious Culture and “Insurance” 2.1 Max Weber, the Protestant Ethic, Calvin(ism), and Economics 2.2 A Historiographical Gap: Insuring and Religious Denominations 2.3 Insurance History and Protestantism: The Search for Evidence Chapter 5 The Emergence of the Normal Secure Society 1 Insurance and Social Structures 1.1 Collective Solidarity: from Risk Communities to Cosmopolitan Aid in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1.2 Insurance as Emerging from Notions of Social Contract and Moral Duty 2 State and Society in the Code of Numbers 3 Time Instead of Space: Sustainability and Insurance Chapter 6 The Globalization of Safety Regimes: The Return of Space 1 Hamburg 2 Istanbul 3 Bombay/Calcutta 4 China 5 USA/New York 6 Comparative Analysis Chapter 7 Conclusion Appendix 1 Academic Legal Treatises and Dissertations on the Assecuratio (in Chronological Order) Appendix 2 Chronological List of Cameralist Fire Insurance Foundations in Germany Appendix 3 Cameralist Treatises of Brandkassen and Insurances Afterword Sources and Literature Unpublished Sources Published Primary Sources Published Secondary Sources Index Locorum Index Nominum Index Rerum