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" Fighting fires : "
Shane Ewen.
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1000008
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b754378
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Ewen, Shane.
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Fighting fires : : creating the British fire service, 1800-1978 /\ Shane Ewen.
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Basingstoke, UK ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
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1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) :: illustrations
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0230248403
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0230517102
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1282742965
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9780230517103
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9781282742963
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Governing Fire Protection: The Origins of Municipal Fire Brigades, c.1800-38 -- Constructing Modern Fire Brigades: The Edinburgh 'Great Fire' of 1824 -- Controlling Fire: The Politics of Water and Steam Technology, c.1833-80 -- Firemen as Workers and Heroes: Working for Victorian Municipal Fire Brigades, c.1861-1900 -- Building a Professional Fire Service: The Rise of the Chief Fire Officer, C.1879-1914 -- Rational Reform in an Age of War: Creating a Modern Fire Service, 1914-38 -- From Braidwood to Braidy: A National Fire Service, 1941-7 -- From Fighting Fires to Fighting Firemen: A Fractured Fire Service, 1947-78 -- Conclusion. The British Fire Service in Comparative Context.
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James Braidwood's career as a fire-fighter spanned thirty-seven years and was born and extinguished in the horrors of fires: Edinburgh's 'great fire' of November 1824 and London's Tooley Street fire of June 1861. Although he is regarded by fire-fighters as the 'father' of the British fire service, little is known of Braidwood or the history of his profession. Fighting Fires: Creating the British Fire Service, 1800-1978 examines the role played by fire-fighters like Braidwood, Captain Eyre Massey Shaw and Alfred Robert Tozer in creating a professional ethos for paid fire-fighters during the nineteenth century: an ethos which emphasized saving lives as well as property from fire. Ewen then traces the methods used by professional fire-fighters to redefine their occupation to incorporate fire prevention during the twentieth century. As the first full-length academic history of the British fire service, Fighting Fires is based on a wealth of original archival material. Ewen argues that the fire service was, for the most part, created by its fire-fighters, becoming part of the fabric of local government by the turn of the twentieth century. Ever since, the service's history has been fraught with infighting between fire-fighters and their employers, erupting in 1977 with the first national strike. Ewen assesses these professional tensions in their long-term context, tracing the incremental growth of a British fire service into one of the country's most important, though neglected, emergency services.
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Fire departments-- Great Britain-- History.
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Fire extinction-- Great Britain-- History.
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Fire fighters-- Great Britain-- History.
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British Irish history.
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European history.
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Fire departments.
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Fire extinction.
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Fire fighters.
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History.
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History.
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Social cultural history.
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Social cultural history.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Fire Science.
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Feuerwehr.
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Brandweer.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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363.370941
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TH9537.E94 2010
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