Cause for alarm: the volunteer fire department in the nineteenth-century city
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. Cause for Alarm presents a new vision of urban culture, one defined not by class but by gender. Volunteer firefighting united men in a shared masculine celebration of strength and bravery, skill and appearance. Greenberg assesses the legitimacy of accusations of violence and political corruption against…
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- Full title :Cause for alarm : the volunteer fire department in the nineteenth-century city / Amy S. Greenberg.
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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. Cause for Alarm presents a new vision of urban culture, one defined not by class but by gender. Volunteer firefighting united men in a shared masculine celebration of strength and bravery, skill and appearance. Greenberg assesses the legitimacy of accusations of violence and political corruption against the firemen in each city, and places the municipalization of firefighting in the context of urban social change, new ideals of citizenship, the rapid spread of fire insurance, and new firefighting technologies.
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- Publication Date:©1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 233 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0691016488, 9780691016481
- oclc:ocm37917332
- LC Classification:TH9505
- Dewey Decimal:363.37/09752/609034
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