Author: Thomas Lynch
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Category : Fire prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Thomas Lynch
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016625203
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Edward Edwards
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Category : Fire prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.

Author: Mrs. Esther (Mohr) Dole
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Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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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.

Author: Saint Louis (Mo.). Public school library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Author: Charles Kelley Jones
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780934223867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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"Johnson pursued all phases of his music with unmatched skill and fervor, even to the detriment of his health. At the time of his untimely death in 1844, Johnson had become the most prolific and widely traveled American composer, bandmaster, and performer in our nation's first century."--Jacket.

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Languages : en
Pages : 818

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Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 196

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