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Pbk. edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 654 pages) : illustrations. |
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Fire historians |
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University and college faculty members |
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Arizonans |
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Men |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cycle of fire
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books
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Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
Cycle of fire.
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Note |
Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1982. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-626) and index. |
| Summary |
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape. |
| Contents |
Prologue: The Smoke of Time 3 -- 1 Nature's Fire 6 -- Electrical Fire: A Natural History of Lightning Fire 8 -- Fire Environment: Principles of Fire Behavior 20 -- Fire and Life: Principles of Fire Ecology 34 -- Burned-Over Districts: A Fire History of the Northeast 45 -- 2 Fire from Asia 66 -- Our Grandfather Fire: Fire and the American Indian 71 -- These Conflagrated Prairies: A Fire History of the Grasslands 84 -- Paiute Forestry: A History of the Light-Burning Controversy 100 -- 3 Fire from Europe 123 -- Prometheus Bound: Fire and Europe 126 -- Our Pappies Burned the Woods: A Fire History of the South 143 -- Fire Wolves and Smokey Bears: A History of Fire Prevention 161 -- 4 Great Barbecue 181 -- Dragon Devastation: Fire and the Counterreclamation 184 -- Sky of Brass, Earth of Ash: A Fire History of the Lake States 199 -- From Fire and Axe: Private and Early Government Fire Protection 219 -- 5 Heroic Age 239 -- 1910: A Fire History of the Northern Rockies 242 -- Forester's Policy: A History of Fire Policy in the U.S. Forest Service 260 -- A Moral and Legal Charge: A History of Fire Policy in the Department of the Interior and Interagency Organizations 295 -- 6 A Continental Experiment 322 -- Fire and Water: A Fire History of the Northwest 327 -- Cross Fire: Fire Protection by the States 346 -- Under Fire: A History of Manpower in Fire Control 360 -- 7 Cold War on Fire 387 -- Firepower: Fire and Warfare 390 -- A Burned-Out Case: A Fire History of Southern California 404 -- Best Tools: A History of Fire Equipment 424 -- Red Menace: A History of Rural Fire Defense 450 -- 8 Fields of Fire 462 -- Thermal Pulse: A History of Wildland Fire Research 467 -- Fire and Frost: A Fire History of Alaska 497 -- Fire on the Mountain: A Fire History of the Southwest 514 -- Epilogue: The Forbidden Flame 530. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wildfires -- United States -- History.
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Wildfires. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Fires -- United States -- History.
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Fires. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Fire in America. Pbk. edition. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1997 029597592X (DLC) 96049191 (OCoLC)36011603 |
| ISBN |
9780295805214 (electronic book) |
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0295805218 (electronic book) |
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029597592X |
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9780295975924 |
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