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Canada and the United States

Amy S. Greenberg. Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 233. $35.00.

Amy S. Greenberg challenges the previous work on nineteenth-century fire fighters by labor historians. She also challenges the belief, and I will quote myself here, that in the Jacksonian era "there was a close affiliation between gangs, fire companies, politics, and ethnic identity" (Rioting in America [1997], pp. 68–69). Using an in-depth analysis of the volunteer departments of three cities—Baltimore, St. Louis, and San Francisco—Greenberg shows that firemen came from a broad social spectrum including many respectable individuals who were not affiliated with gangs, that firemen were not successful in pushing a consistent and united political agenda, and that few fire companies had a clear ethnic identity. In short, the fire companies were not vehicles of working-class identity. . . .

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