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Publisher: FEMA
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Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Author: Meredith Whitney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101601493
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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"Forget everything you think you know about the direction of the American economy, about our grow­ing need for foreign oil, about the rise of the service economy and the decline of American manufacturing. The story of the next thirty years will not be a repeat of the last thirty." One of the most respected voices on Wall Street, Meredith Whitney shot to global prominence in 2007 when her warnings of a looming crisis in the financial sector proved all too prescient. Now, in her first book, she expands upon her biggest call since the financial crisis.

Author: Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400864925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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 that fire companies were primarily working class, Greenberg shows that they were actually mixed social groups: merchants and working men, immigrants and native-born--all found a common identity as firemen. Cause for Alarm presents a new vision of urban culture, one defined not by class but by gender. Volunteer firefighting united men in a shared masculine celebration of strength and bravery, skill and appearance. In an otherwise alienating environment, fire companies provided men from all walks of life with status, community, and an outlet for competition, which sometimes even led to elaborate brawls. While this culture was fully respected in the early nineteenth century, changing social norms eventually demonized the firemen's vision of masculinity. Greenberg assesses the legitimacy of accusations of violence and political corruption against the firemen in each city, and places the municipalization of firefighting in the context of urban social change, new ideals of citizenship, the rapid spread of fire insurance, and new firefighting technologies. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: California. Department of Industrial Relations
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Elizabeth Pomada
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811838153
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This guidebook for tourists and locals is updated with more than 350 terrific destinations sure to please the whole family. User-friendly features include listings divided by region, a calendar of annual events, and an index by age group. Illustrations. Maps.

Author: California. Department of Industrial Relations
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: United States Fire Administration
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Category : Fire prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Category : Fire prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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