Cause for Alarm : The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City

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Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless been largely ignored by historians. Redressing this neglect, Amy Greenberg reveals the meaning of this central institution by comparing the fire departments...

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Autor principal: Greenberg, Amy S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Volunteer fire departments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Volunteer fire departments > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Volunteer fire departments > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 19th century.
Volunteer fire departments > Maryland > Baltimore > History > 19th century.
Missouri > Saint Louis.
Maryland > Baltimore.
California > San Francisco.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables, Figures, and Maps ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Beginning at the Wake; Writing a Fireman's History; The Evolution of the Volunteer Fire Department; Synopsis: Fire-Man, Urban Citizen; Chapter One ; Paying Tribute; Invested in Firefighting; Investing in Protection; A Fragile Relationship; Chapter Two; Manly Boys and Chaste Fire Engines: The Culture of the Volunteer Fire Department ; Choosing a Fire Company; The Brotherhood of Firemen; Classless Masculinity; Gendered Fire Engines and Absent Women; Families versus Firemen; Chapter Three.
  • Fights/Fires: A Glance at Violent FiremenThe Firemen of Mob-Town; St. Louis Rowdyism; The Model Fire Department of the World
  • Some Conclusions about Fire Department Violence; Chapter Four ; Smoke-Filled Rooms: Volunteer Firemen and Political Culture; Seventeen St. Louis Mayors; The Limitations of Political Mobilization, or What Do Seventeen Mayors Really Buy You; Chapter Five ; Insuring Protection: Fire Insurance and the Era of the Steam Engine; Insuring Protection; A Mighty Agent; Chapter Six ; Deluged and Disgraced; Conclusion; One Last Eulogy; Appendix.
  • Occupational Scale Used for Quantitative AnalysisNotes; Bibliography ; Index.

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