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Vestal Fire An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World

Aus der Reihe Weyerhaueser Cycle of Fire

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.03.2000

Verlag

University of Washington Press

Seitenzahl

672

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/4 cm

Gewicht

984 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-295-97948-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.03.2000

Verlag

University of Washington Press

Seitenzahl

672

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/4 cm

Gewicht

984 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-295-97948-9

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Contents

    Foreword by William Cronon

    Author's Notes

    Prologue: Quest for Fire

    Book 1: Elements

    Flame

    Diamond in the Rough: A Physical Geography of European Fire

    New Worlds from Old: A Biogeography of European Fire

    Fusain and Flame: A Natural History of European Fire

    Torch

    Errant Fire: The Hominid Colonization of Europe

    Cultivated Fire: The Agricultural Reclamation of Europe

    Pyrotechnia: The Technology of Combustion

    Hearth

    Domiciled Fire: Hearth and House

    The Fire in the Cave: Combustion and Cognition

    Need-Fire, Vestal Fire: Ceremony and Ritual

    Book 2: Europe

    Eternal Flame: Fire in Mediterranean Europe

    Prologue: West of Eden

    Behold, Before a Garden, Behind a Waste

    Arcadia and Anarchy: Mediterranean Pastorale

    Grand Traverse: Imperial France

    Mediterranean Miniature: Cyprus

    Epilogue: Fin-de Siecle Fire

    Controlled Combustion: Fire in Central Europe

    Prologue: Ashes and Embers

    Landnam: The Fire of First Contact

    Reclamation: The Fire in the Garden

    Revolution: The Enlightenment Comes to Agriculture

    Revolution Redux: Forestry Takes Command

    Epilogue: Holocaust

    Wild Hearth: Fire in Boreal Europe

    Prologue: Fire and Water

    Fire and Sword: The Historia of Olaus Magnus

    Fire and Ax: The Finnish Colonization

    Fire and Field: The Travels of Linnaeus

    Fire and Iron: The Adventures of Nils

    Epilogue: Final Flame

    Flaming Front: Fire in Eurasian Europe

    Prologue: Wooden Rus' Is like a Fire

    The Candle and the Torch

    Lines of Fire, Fields of Fire

    Emancipation and Suppression

    When the Sky Burned

    Epilogue: Fire in the Minds of Men

    Spot Fires: Fire in Atlantic Europe

    Prologue: Sparks in the Wind

    It Was All a Planted Garden: The British Isles

    Green Fire: The Celtic Isle

    Northern Mists, Northern Smoke: The Norse Islands

    Blessed Isles, Burned Isles: The Iberian Islands

    Epilogue: The World Encompassed

    Book 3: Earth

    Islands

    New Fire: The Coming of Antropogenic Fire

    Strange Fire: The Coming of European Fire

    Sacred Fire: The Coming of Conservation

    Continents

    Carrying the Fire: Europe Expands

    Counter Fire: Europe Contains

    Fire in the Ashes: Europe Rekindles

    Planets

    Conduction: The European Connection

    Radiation: The Neo-Europes

    Convection: Black Death, Heat Death

    Epilogue: Beyond the Realm of Fire

    Notes

    Glossary

    Bibliography

    Index