Prometheus tamed : fire, security, and modernities, 1400 to 1900

Prometheus tamed : fire, security, and modernities, 1400 to 1900 / Cornel Zwierlein.

"Over 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representation of that thre...

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Main Author: Zwierlein, Cornel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021.
Series:Library of economic history ; v. 13.
Subjects:
Fire ecology.
Wildfires > Environmental aspects.
Fire ecology
Wildfires > Environmental aspects
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