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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenberg, Amy S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 of Baltimore, St. Louis, and San Francisco from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Volunteer fire companies protected highly flammable cities from fire and provided many men with friendship, brotherhood, and a way to prove their civic virtue. While other scholars have claimed tha.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9781400864928

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