Cause for Alarm

Author: Amy S. Greenberg
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0691016488

Cause for Alarm

This text aims to reveal the meaning of the volunteer fire department in the 19th century, comparing the fire departments of Baltimore, St Louis and San Francisco from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Download Cause for Alarm from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Volunteer fire companies protected highly flammable cities from fire and provided men with friendship and a way to prove their civic virtue. The text examines how the mix of social groups - merchants and working men, immigrants and native-born - all found a common identity as firemen. It offers a vision of urban culture, defined not by class, but by gender. The volunteer firefighting units united men in a shared masculine celebration of strength and bravery, though changing social norms eventually demonized the firemen's vision of masculinity. Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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