By Amy S. Greenberg
Though vital to the social, political, and cultural lifetime of the nineteenth-century urban, the city volunteer hearth division has however been mostly neglected through historians. Redressing this overlook, Amy Greenberg finds the that means of this imperative establishment through evaluating the hearth departments of Baltimore, St. Louis, and San Francisco from the overdue eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Volunteer fireplace businesses secure hugely flammable towns from hearth and supplied many males with friendship, brotherhood, and how to end up their civic advantage. whereas different students have claimed that fireside businesses have been basically operating classification, Greenberg exhibits that they have been truly combined social teams: retailers and dealing males, immigrants and native-born--all discovered a typical id as firemen. Cause for Alarm provides a brand new imaginative and prescient of city tradition, one outlined now not by way of type yet by way of gender. Volunteer firefighting united males in a shared masculine social gathering of energy and bravado, ability and visual appeal. In an differently alienating atmosphere, hearth businesses supplied males from all walks of existence with prestige, neighborhood, and an outlet for pageant, which occasionally even resulted in difficult brawls.
While this tradition was once absolutely revered within the early 19th century, altering social norms finally demonized the firemen's imaginative and prescient of masculinity. Greenberg assesses the legitimacy of accusations of violence and political corruption opposed to the firemen in every one urban, and locations the municipalization of firefighting within the context of city social swap, new beliefs of citizenship, the fast unfold of fireside coverage, and new firefighting technologies.
Originally released in 1998.
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Readers heard what train the firemen arrived on, where the firemen planned to stay, and what the Baltimore firemen wore when they met the visiting firemen. 32 Any return home of the Baltimore firemen was also news. In 1844, the Sun reported on the Liberty Fire Company: "This excellent company returned on Saturday evening from their visit to Philadelphia. They were escorted to their quarters by the Mechanical and New Market [fire companies]. "33 Baltimore's press and its readers celebrated the return of the Liberty Company as surely as did the Mechanical and New Market companies.
1 Marcus Boruck, volunteer fireman and editor of the San Francisco Spirit of the Times and Fireman's Journal, probably never considered himself a competi tor of Hale's, but like her, he edited an explicitly gendered publication appeal ing to one segment of the population. Both of these editors avoided controver sial topics and hoped primarily to entertain their audiences. The Fireman's Journal also graced some elegant parlors, although it seems unlikely that those two publications ever shared space on a table.
Firemen in most cities were exempted from jury duty and militia service, and fire companies were among the few widely supported public institutions in a period when the public good was defined in terms of the interests of a very small proportion of urban citizens. Robin Einhorn, Sam Bass Warner, and Michael Frisch have all concluded that in the "private city" of the antebellum PAYING TRIBUTE 35 period, services were intended for and provided to those who paid for them through taxes on property.
