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  • Fighting fires[electronic resource] :creating the British fire service, 1800-1978 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 363.370941
    書名/作者: Fighting fires : creating the British fire service, 1800-1978 // Shane Ewen.
    作者: Ewen, Shane.
    出版者: Basingstoke, UK ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
    面頁冊數: viii, 234 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: Fire departments - History. - Great Britain
    標題: Fire extinction - History. - Great Britain
    標題: Fire fighters - History. - Great Britain
    ISBN: 9780230248403
    ISBN: 0230248403
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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 Streetfire 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 EyreMassey 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 themethods used by professional fire-fighters to redefine their occupation to incorporatefire prevention during the twentieth century. As the first full-length academic history of the British fire service, FightingFires is based on a wealth of original archival material. Ewen argues thatthe fire service was, for the most part, created by its fire-fighters, becoming part of the fabric of local government by the turn of thetwentieth 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 aBritish fire service into one of the country's most important, though neglected, emergency services.
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