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. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disaster relief — Social aspects — United States — History — 20th century
Disaster relief — Social aspects — Canada — History — 20th century
Fires — Massachusetts — Salem — History — 20th century
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Working class — Massachusetts — Salem — History — 20th century
Working class — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Solidarity — Social aspects — History — 20th century
Power (Social sciences) — History — 20th century
Salem (Mass.) — Social conditions — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — Social conditions — 20th century

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In this heartwarming voyage of discovery, Amy Whorf McGuiggan brings us to 18th-century Acadia (present-day Canada) to meet her ancestors, and then connects them back to New England. Every genealogist has a story to tell, and the author takes us along for her in-depth research with a narrative that brings her ancestors' story alive" - David Allen Lambert, chief genealogist, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Includes bibliographical references.

Osborne family
Downing family
Acadians — Genealogy
Acadia — Genealogy
Salem (Mass.) — Genealogy
Danvers (Mass.) — Genealogy
Peabody (Mass.) — Genealogy

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Salem (Mass.) — Vital statistics

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Library's copy unbound.

Architecture — Massachusetts — Salem
Architecture, Colonial
Salem (Mass.)

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Witchcraft
Salem (Mass.)

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Witchcraft — Massachusetts — Salem.

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Spiral binding.

Canaan (N.S.) — Genealogy
Salem (Mass.) — Genealogy

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Library has: v.1. Births - v.3. Marriages - v.4. Marriages - v.5. Deaths - v.6. Deaths.

Essex Institute.

Salem (Mass.) — Statistics, Vital

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Essex Institute.

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