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

by Amy S. Greenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691632766
• ISBN13: 9780691632766
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"