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Disaster Citizenship - Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (Paperback)
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Disaster Citizenship - Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (Paperback)
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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.
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