The first full-length scholarly history of the British fire service, 1800-1978, this book scrutinizes how firemen created a professional public service incumbent upon municipal government. It examines the influence of major fires andleading personalities within the fire service in constructing a professional ethos for municipal fire brigades. INDICE: Introduction - A Private Fire Service? Governing the Fire BrigadesDuring the Early Nineteenth Century - Constructing Modern Fire Brigades: Disaster as a Stimulus to Reform - Fire and Water: Municipalising Fire-fighting inMid-Victorian Britain - 'A hero of this Nineteenth century b a solider of thefire brigade': Constructions of Masculinity for Late Victorian Firemen - The New Urban Elites: Protecting the Profession and Preventing Fires in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain - Modernising the Fire Service: Central and Local Influences - War and Reform: A National Fire Service? - Abandoning the Fire Service: From the 'Spit and Polish' Demonstration to the First National Strike - Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-230-51710-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 27/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés