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Fire in America A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyne, Stephen.
- Series:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Cycle of fire.
- Cycle of fire.
- Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plantas--Efectos del fuego.
- Plantas.
- Incendios forestales--Estados Unidos--Historia.
- Incendios forestales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (656 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
- Edition:
- 2nd print.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE TO THE 1997 PAPERBACK EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION: HISTORY WITH FIRE IN ITS EYE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PROLOGUE: THE SMOKE OF TIME
- 1: NATURE'S FIRE
- 2: THE FIRE FROM ASIA
- 3: THE FIRE FROM EUROPE
- 4: THE GREAT BARBECUE
- 5: THE HEROIC AGE
- 6: A CONTINENTAL EXPERIMENT
- 7: THE COLD WAR ON FIRE
- 8: FIELDS OF FIRE
- EPILOGUE: THE FORBIDDEN FLAME
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295805214
- 0295805218
- OCLC:
- 1273305815
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