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A Brief History
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Stephen J. Pyne
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$22.95 Paperback
Release Date: 10/1/2001
ISBN: 9780295981444
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Canadian rights only
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Distributed for University of Washington Press
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About the Book
Stephen Pyne has written the essential story of fire, providing an understanding of its role in human history. He describes the evolution of fire from prehistoric and historic times to the present, examining contemporary attitudes from a long-range, informed perspective. He also surveys the principles behind aboriginal and agricultural fire practices, the characteristics of urban fire, and the relationship between control-led combustion and technology, particularly those tools and techniques that affect landscapes.
Fire’s role in cities, suburbs, and wildlands as shaped by the industrialized, Europeanized, urban way of thinking that prevails in most of the world is covered brilliantly by the author. "Questions of what kind of fires should exist," he writes, are increasingly decided in urban centres based on urban values. The modern city’s fire reach extends far beyond the range of its municipal fire department.
Fire will be of value to readers interested in the environment, whether from the standpoint of anthropology, geography, forestry, general science and technology, or history.
About the Author(s)
Stephen J. Pyne, a noted environmental historian, is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State University. Fire is the sixth volume in his series Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Fire in America, Burning Bush, and The Ice.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Forward
Introduction
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 Life
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
Selected Sources and Further Reading
Index
Reviews
No one is better qualified to teach us about fire’s history, fire’s crucial role in shaping landscapes, than Stephen Pyne. His discussions of forestry, land-management elitism, pastoral incendiarism, nature reserves, the conservation movement and the ecology of disturbance are profoundly valuable.
- New York Times Book Review
Sample Chapter
A sample chapter of this title is not available at this time. For further information, please email info@ubcpress.ubc.ca.
Related Topics
History > Other
Environmental Studies
History
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