Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes

Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes. City of Comrades : Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State. Duke University (History Department, 2010).

Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes’ PhD thesis, « City of Comrades : Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State », examines an important moment in the rise of the technocratic state during the Progressive Era. Using a wide array of Canadian and American sources, Remes brilliantly examines the tensions arising between the state and working class survivors’ formal organizations and informal groups. Remes’s transnational work displays great insight and originality, with its stress on how rescue and relief operations are unavoidably political.