Fire : a brief history

Fire : a brief history / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- (Author)
Other Authors: Cronon, William (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Cycle of fire.
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Subjects:
Fire > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Forestry.
Fire
Feuer
Feuerkult
Feuerökologie
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Small Book, Big Story by William Cronon; Introduction: Kindling; 1. Fire and Earth: Creating Combustion; How Fire Came to Be; Fire and Life; First Fire Today; Touched by Fire; 2. Frontiers of Fire (Part 1): Fire Colonizing by Hominins; What Made Early Fires Effective; First Contact: When Fire Arrives; Lost Contact: When Fire Departs; 3. Aboriginal Fire: Controlling the Spark; Why They Burned; Where and How They Burned; Dying Fire: When the Firestick Leaves; 4. Agricultural Fire: Cultivating Fuel
  • The Fire in Agriculture's HearthHow to Cultivate Fire; What They Meant to Each Other; Rites of Fire; 5. Frontiers of Fire (Part 2): Fire Colonizing by Agriculture; How Conversion Leads to Colonization; Stories from the Fire Frontier; Comings and Goings of Agricultural Fire Today; 6. Urban Fire: Building Habitats for Fire; Hearth and House: Making a Home for Fire; Built to Burn: A Fire Ecology for the City Combustible; The Eternal Flame Invisible: Fire in the Industrial City; 7. Pyrotechnics: Fire and Technology; Prometheus Unchained; Cycles of Pyrotechnology: How Fire Has Cooked the Earth
  • Fire Powers: Controlled-and Not-So-Controlled-Fire as Mover and ShakerFire in the Mind; 8. Frontiers of Fire (Part 3): Fire Colonizing by Europe; How Europe Expanded Fire's Realm; How Europe Contained Fire's Realm; How Europe Redefined Fire's Realm; 9. Industrial Fire: Stoking the Big Burn; How Industrial Combustion Has Added Fire; How Industrial Combustion Has Subtracted Fire; How Industrial Combustion Has Rearranged Fire Regimes; 10. The Future of Fire: Burning Beyond the Millennium; As the World Burns: What Is and Isn't Burning, and Where; Still the Keeper of the Flame
  • 11. The Pyrocene: A Brief FuturePowering the Anthropocene; Tending Fire: Earth's New Pyrogeography; Minding Fire: The Rekindling of Fire as Idea; Pyromancy; Selected Sources and Further Reading; Index; About the Author

Similar Items