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

Amy S. Greenberg

Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
244
ISBN
9780691632766

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

Amy S. Greenberg

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

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