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Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City
By (Author) Amy S. Greenberg
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
363.37097526
Hardback
244
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
510g
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