The Resource Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era, Jacob A.C. Remes
Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era, Jacob A.C. Remes
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- Summary
- "A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States-Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money. In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A.C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive 'solutions' on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape. Innovative and engaging, Disaster Citizenship excavates the forgotten networks of solidarity and obligation in an earlier time while simultaneously suggesting new frameworks in the emerging field of critical disaster studies"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Organization without Any Organization": Order and Disorder in Exploded Halifax; 2 "A Great Power Had Swept Over It": Politics and Power after the Salem Fire; 3 "It Is Easy Enough to Establish Camps": Geographies of Community and Resistance in Burned Salem; 4 "The Relief Would Have Had to Pay Someone": Halifax Families and the Work of Relief in Halifax; 5 "A Desirable Measure of Responsibility": Halifax's Churches and Unions Respond to the Progressive
- 6 "The Sufferings of This Time Are Not Worthy to Be Compared with the Glory That Is to Come": SaleConclusion: Cities of Comrades; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9780252097942
- Label
- Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era
- Title
- Disaster citizenship
- Title remainder
- survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era
- Statement of responsibility
- Jacob A.C. Remes
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- Canada
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Fires
- Fires -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Halifax (N.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
- History
- Massachusetts -- Salem
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Power (Social sciences)
- Power (Social sciences) -- History -- 20th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Social conditions
- Solidarity -- Social aspects | History -- 20th century
- United States
- Working class
- Working class -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 20th century
- Working class -- Nova Scotia | Halifax -- History -- 20th century
- Nova Scotia -- Halifax
- 1900-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States-Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money. In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A.C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive 'solutions' on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape. Innovative and engaging, Disaster Citizenship excavates the forgotten networks of solidarity and obligation in an earlier time while simultaneously suggesting new frameworks in the emerging field of critical disaster studies"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Remes, Jacob A. C.
- Dewey number
- 363.34/8097309041
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV555.U6
- LC item number
- R46 2016eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The working class in American history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Disaster relief
- Disaster relief
- Fires
- Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
- Working class
- Working class
- Solidarity
- Power (Social sciences)
- Salem (Mass.)
- Halifax (N.S.)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- HISTORY
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- HISTORY
- Disaster relief
- Fires
- Power (Social sciences)
- Social conditions
- Working class
- Canada
- Massachusetts
- Nova Scotia
- United States
- Label
- Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era, Jacob A.C. Remes
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Organization without Any Organization": Order and Disorder in Exploded Halifax; 2 "A Great Power Had Swept Over It": Politics and Power after the Salem Fire; 3 "It Is Easy Enough to Establish Camps": Geographies of Community and Resistance in Burned Salem; 4 "The Relief Would Have Had to Pay Someone": Halifax Families and the Work of Relief in Halifax; 5 "A Desirable Measure of Responsibility": Halifax's Churches and Unions Respond to the Progressive
- 6 "The Sufferings of This Time Are Not Worthy to Be Compared with the Glory That Is to Come": SaleConclusion: Cities of Comrades; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- 933297777
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780252097942
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1970mh1
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)933297777
- Label
- Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era, Jacob A.C. Remes
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Organization without Any Organization": Order and Disorder in Exploded Halifax; 2 "A Great Power Had Swept Over It": Politics and Power after the Salem Fire; 3 "It Is Easy Enough to Establish Camps": Geographies of Community and Resistance in Burned Salem; 4 "The Relief Would Have Had to Pay Someone": Halifax Families and the Work of Relief in Halifax; 5 "A Desirable Measure of Responsibility": Halifax's Churches and Unions Respond to the Progressive
- 6 "The Sufferings of This Time Are Not Worthy to Be Compared with the Glory That Is to Come": SaleConclusion: Cities of Comrades; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- 933297777
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780252097942
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1970mh1
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)933297777
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- Canada
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Fires
- Fires -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Halifax (N.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
- History
- Massachusetts -- Salem
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Power (Social sciences)
- Power (Social sciences) -- History -- 20th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Social conditions
- Solidarity -- Social aspects | History -- 20th century
- United States
- Working class
- Working class -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 20th century
- Working class -- Nova Scotia | Halifax -- History -- 20th century
- Nova Scotia -- Halifax
- 1900-1999
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