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Stephen J. Pyne 
Fire in America 
A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

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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.

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List of Illustrations
Foreword by William Cronon
Preface to the 1997 Paperback Edition
Preface to the Original Edition: History with Fire in its eye
Abbreviations
Prologue: The Smoke of TIme
Nature’s Fire
The Fire from Asia
The Fire from Europe
The Great Barbecue
The Heroic Age
A Continental Experiment
The Cold War on Fire
Fields of Fire
Epilogue: The Forbidden Flame
Bibliographic Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index

Om författaren

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State Universty. He is the author of many books, including Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 and Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter’s Season at the Grand Canyon. Fire: A Brief History is the sixth volume in Pyne’s Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Burning Bush, The Ice and Fire in America.
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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 680 ● ISBN 9780295805214 ● Filstorlek 3.4 MB ● Utgivare University of Washington Press ● Stad Seattle ● Land US ● Publicerad 2017 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5202453 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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