Fire : [electronic resource] : a brief history / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.
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Fire : [electronic resource] : a brief history / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.
Fire : [electronic resource] : a brief history / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019.
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English
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1 online resource ( xvii, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait
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text
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computer
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online resource
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...
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: Buil...
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 Indu...
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
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019.
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Second edition.
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Washington (State)
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2019.
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Fire : [electronic resource] : a brief history / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon.
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Cycle of fire
Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2019
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74VKa620doqA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa620doqA
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9780295746197 (electronic bk.)
029574619X (electronic book)
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541/.361
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991024338419502626
