Fire : a brief history /
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| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Cycle of fire.
Weyerhaeuser environmental book. |
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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