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Fire : a brief history / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
- Series:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Cycle of fire
- Cycle of fire
- Weyerhaeuser environmental books
- Weyerhaeuser environmental book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fire--History.
- Fire.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- 1 Fire and Earth: Creating Combustion p. 3
- How Fire Came to Be p. 4
- Fire and Life p. 14
- First Fire Today p. 20
- Touched by Fire p. 24
- 2 Frontiers of Fire (Part 1): Fire Colonizing by Hominins p. 27
- What Made Early Fires Effective p. 29
- First Contact: When Fire Arrives p. 34
- Lost Contact: When Fire Departs p. 38
- 3 Aboriginal Fire: Controlling the Spark p. 46
- Why They Burned p. 47
- Where and How They Burned p. 51
- Dying Fire: When the Firestick Leaves p. 57
- 4 Agricultural Fire: Cultivating Fuel p. 65
- The Fire in Agriculture's Hearth p. 65
- How to Cultivate Fire p. 67
- What They Meant to Each Other p. 82
- Rites of Fire p. 85
- 5 Frontiers of Fire (Part 2): Fire Colonizing by Agriculture p. 87
- How Conversion Leads to Colonization p. 88
- Stories from the Fire Frontier p. 90
- Comings and Goings of Agricultural Fire Today p. 97
- 6 Urban Fire: Building Habitats for Fire p. 102
- Hearth and House: Making a Home for Fire p. 102
- Built to Burn: A Fire Ecology for the City Combustible p. 106
- The Eternal Flame Invisible: Fire in the Industrial City p. 115
- 7 Pyrotechnics: Fire and Technology p. 119
- Prometheus Unchained p. 121
- Cycles of Pyrotechnology: How Fire Has Cooked the Earth p. 129
- Fire Powers: Controlled-and Not-So-Controlled-Fire as Mover and Shaker p. 133
- Fire in the Mind p. 137
- 8 Frontiers of Fire (Part 3): Fire Colonizing by Europe p. 139
- How Europe Expanded Fire's Realm p. 140
- How Europe Contained Fire's Realm p. 144
- How Europe Redefined Fire's Realm p. 151
- 9 Industrial Fire: Stoking the Big Burn p. 155
- How Industrial Combustion Has Added Fire p. 158
- How Industrial Combustion Has Subtracted Fire p. 160
- How Industrial Combustion Has Rearranged Fire Regimes p. 167
- 10 The Future of Fire: Burning beyond the Millennium p. 172
- As the World Burns: What Is and Isn't Burning, and Where p. 173
- Still the Keeper of the Flame p. 182
- 11 The Pyrocene: A Brief Future p. 187
- Powering the Anthropocene p. 187
- Tending Fire: Earth's New Pyrogeography p. 188
- Minding Fire: The Rekindling of Fire as Idea p. 195
- Pyromancy p. 201.
- Notes:
- First edition, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author. Fire
- ISBN:
- 9780295746203
- 0295746203
- 9780295746180
- 0295746181
- OCLC:
- 1099540470
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