Fire

A noted environmental historian describes the evolution of fire through prehistoric and historic times down to the present, examining contemporary attitudes from a long-range, informed perspective.

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State University.

Acknowledgments

ix

Foreword: Small Book, Big Story

xi

William Cronon

Introduction: Kindling

xv

Fire and Earth: Creating Combustion

3

(24)

How Fire Came to Be

4

(10)

How Life Accommodated Fire

14

(6)

First Fire Today

20

(7)

Touched by Fire

24

(3)

Frontiers of Fire (Part 1): Fire Colonizing by Hominids

27

(19)

What Made Early Fires Effective

29

(5)

First Contact: When Fire Arrives

34

(4)

Lost Contact: When Fire Departs

38

(8)

Aboriginal Fire: Controlling the Spark

46

(19)

Why They Burned

47

(4)

Where and How They Burned

51

(6)

Dying Fire: When the Firestick Leaves

57

(8)

Agricultural Fire: Cultivating Fuel

65

(22)

The Fire in Agriculture's Hearth

65

(2)

How to Cultivate Fire

67

(15)

What They Meant to Each Other

82

(5)

Rites of Fire

85

(2)

Frontiers of Fire (Part 2): Fire Colonizing By Agriculture

87

(15)

How Conversion Leads to Colonization

88

(2)

Stories from the Fire Frontier

90

(7)

Comings and Goings of Agricultural Fire Today

97

(5)

Urban Fire: Building Habitats for Fire

102

(17)

Hearth and House: Making a Home for Fire

102

(4)

Built to Burn: A Fire Ecology for the City Combustible

106

(9)

The Eternal Flame Invisible: Fire in the Industrial City

115

(4)

Pyrotechnics: Fire and Technology

119

(20)

Prometheus Unchained

121

(8)

Cycles of Pyrotechnology: How Fire Has Cooked the Earth

129

(4)

Fire Powers: Controlled---and Not-So-Controlled---Fire as Mover and Shaker

133

(6)

Fire in the Mind

137

(2)

Frontiers of Fire (Part 3): Fire Colonizing by Europe

139

(16)

How Europe Expanded Fire's Realm

140

(4)

How Europe Contained Fire's Realm

144

(7)

How Europe Redefined Fire's Realm

151

(4)

Industrial Fire: Stoking the Big Burn

155

(17)

How Industrial Combustion has Added Fire

158

(2)

How Industrial Combustion Has Subtracted Fire

160

(7)

How Industrial Combustion Has Rearranged Fire Regimes

167

(5)

The Future of Fire: Burning Beyond the Millennium

172

(15)

As the World Burns: What Is and Isn't Burning, and Where

173

(9)

Still the Keeper of the Flame

182

(5)

Selected Sources and Further Reading

187

(8)

Index

195

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