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Cycle of Fire Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.: Fire : A Brief History by Stephen J. Pyne (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCarnegie Mellon University Press
ISBN-10029598144X
ISBN-139780295981444
eBay Product ID (ePID)3038279168
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFire : a Brief History
SubjectAgriculture / Forestry, Fire Science
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering
AuthorStephen J. Pyne
SeriesCycle of Fire Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2001-035593
ReviewsFire: A Brief History packs into one slender volume a sweeping tale of fire, and man's interactions with fire, from prehistory to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Pyne's perceptive words and tightly organized sentences allow him to suggest many thought-provoking ideas and to bring to his audiencea fascinating story of fire's role in shaping our world.
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal304.2
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Foreword: Small Book, Big Story Introduction: Kindling FIRE AND EARTH: CREATING COMBUSTION How Fire Came to Be How Life Accommodated Fire First Fire Today Touched by Fire FRONTIERS OF FIRE (PART 1): FIRE COLONIZING BY HOMINIDS What Made Early Fire s Effective First Contact: When Fire Arrives Lost Contact: When Fire Departs ABORIGINAL FIRE: CONTROLLING THE SPARK Why They Burned Where and How They Burned Dying Fire : When the Fire stick Leaves AGRICULTURAL FIRE: CULTIVATING FUEL The FIre in Agriculture's Hearth How to Cultivate Fire What They Meant to Each Other Rites of Fire 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 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 PYROTECHNICS: FIRE AND TECHNOLOGY Prometheus Uncained Cycles of Pyrotechnology: How Fire Has Cooked the Earth Fire Powers: Controlled--and Not-So-Controlled-- Fire as Mover and Shaker Fire in the Mud FRONTIERS OF FIRE (PARK 3): FIRE COLONIZING BY EUROPE How Europe Expanded Fire 's Realm How Europe Contained Fire 's Realm How Europe Redefined Fire 's Realm 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 THE FUTURE OF FIRE: BURNING BEYOND THE MILLENIUM As the World Burns: What Is and Isn't Burning, and Where Still the Keeper of the Flame Selected Sources and Further Reading Index
Synopsis"The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know it--the fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before. If one wants to understand just how completely the story of the human past is also the story of fire on earth, there is no better place to start than this small book."--William Cronon Here, in one concise book, is the essential story of fire. Noted environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne describes the evolution of fire through prehistoric and historic times down to the present, examining contemporary attitudes from a long-range, informed perspective. Fire: A Brief History surveys the principles behind aboriginal and agricultural fire practices, the characteristics of urban fire, and the relationship between controlled combustion and technology. Pyne describes how fire's role in cities, suburbs, exurbs, and wildlands has been shaped by an industrialized, urban way of thinking. Fire: A Brief History will be of value to readers interested in the environment from the standpoint of anthropology, geography, forestry, science and technology, history, or the humanities., "The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know it'the fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before. If one wants to understand just how completely the story of the human past is also the story of fire on earth, there is no better place to start than this small book."?William Cronon Here, in one concise book, is the essential story of fire. Noted environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne describes the evolution of fire through prehistoric and historic times down to the present, examining contemporary attitudes from a long-range, informed perspective. Fire: A Brief History surveys the principles behind aboriginal and agricultural fire practices, the characteristics of urban fire, and the relationship between controlled combustion and technology. Pyne describes how fire's role in cities, suburbs, exurbs, and wildlands has been shaped by an industrialized, urban way of thinking. Fire: A Brief History will be of value to readers interested in the environment from the standpoint of anthropology, geography, forestry, science and technology, history, or the humanities.
LC Classification NumberWEB
