Fire : a brief history / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.
Series: Pyne, Stephen J., Cycle of fire ; | Weyerhaeuser environmental bookPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2001.Description: xvii, 204 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 029598144X (alk. paper)
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- GN416 .P85 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-193) and index.
1. Fire and Earth : creating combustion -- 2. Frontiers of fire (part 1) : fire colonizing by hominids -- 3. Aboriginal fire : controlling the spark -- 4. Agricultural fire : cultivating fuel -- 5. Frontiers of fire (part 2) : fire colonizing by agriculture -- 6. Urban fire : building habitats for fire -- 7. Pyrotechnics : fire and technology -- 8. Frontiers of fire (part 3) : fire colonizing by Europe -- 9. Industrial fire : stoking the big burn -- 10. The future of fire : burning beyond the millennium.
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