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Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait. |
| 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fire -- History.
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Fire. |
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History. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Forestry. |
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Feuer. |
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Feuerkult. |
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Feuerökologie. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Fire. Second Edition. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019] 9780295746203 (DLC) 2019018117 |
| ISBN |
029574619X (electronic book) |
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9780295746197 (electronic book) |
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9780295746203 |
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0295746203 |
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