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Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era
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by Jacob A. Remes


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  • Title Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era
  • Author Jacob A. Remes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Date 2015
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780252081378 / 0252081374
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917, Power (Social sciences) - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015019369
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.348

About the author

Jacob A. C. Remes is an assistant professor of public affairs and history at the Metropolitan Center of SUNY Empire State College. He is a winner of the Herbert G. Gutman prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Eugene A. Forsey Prize from the Canadian Committee on Labour History.
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Paperback / softback. New. 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,… Read More
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