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 and leading personalities within the fire service in constructing a professional ethos for municipal fire brigades.

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Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Shane Ewen

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SHANE EWEN is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is joint editor, with Pierre-Yves Saunier, of Another Global City: Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850-2000.

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Book Title: Fighting Fires
Book Subtitle: Creating the British Fire Service, 1800–1978
Authors: Shane Ewen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248403
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51710-3Published: 27 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35492-4Published: 27 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24840-3Published: 27 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 235
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History

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