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

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Label

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

Title remainder

the Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City

Creator

• Greenberg, Amy S

Subject

• California -- San Francisco
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• Volunteer fire departments -- California | San Francisco -- History -- 19th century
• Volunteer fire departments -- Maryland | Baltimore -- History -- 19th century
• History
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
• Volunteer fire departments
• Missouri -- Saint Louis
• Volunteer fire departments -- Missouri | Saint Louis -- History -- 19th century
• Maryland -- Baltimore
• HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
• 1800-1899

Genre

• History

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Princeton legacy library

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

363.37/09752/609034

Index

no index present

LC call number

TH9505

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Princeton Legacy Library