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Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City
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Full Title:
Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City
Contributors:
By (Author) Amy S. Greenberg
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
363.37097526
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
244
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
340g
Description
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 t
