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Fire in America : a cultural history of wildland and rural fire /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
1997.
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| Edición: | Pbk. ed. |
| Colección: | Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Cycle of fire.
Weyerhaeuser environmental book. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: The Smoke of Time 3
- 1 Nature's Fire 6
- Electrical Fire: A Natural History of Lightning Fire 8
- The Fire Environment: Principles of Fire Behavior 20
- Fire and Life: Principles of Fire Ecology 34
- The Burned-Over Districts: A Fire History of the Northeast 45
- 2 The Fire from Asia 66
- Our Grandfather Fire: Fire and the American Indian 71
- These Conflagrated Prairies: A Fire History of the Grasslands 84
- Paiute Forestry: A History of the Light-Burning Controversy 100
- 3 The Fire from Europe 123
- Prometheus Bound: Fire and Europe 126
- Our Pappies Burned the Woods: A Fire History of the South 143
- Fire Wolves and Smokey Bears: A History of Fire Prevention 161
- 4 The Great Barbecue 181
- The Dragon Devastation: Fire and the Counterreclamation 184
- Sky of Brass, Earth of Ash: A Fire History of the Lake States 199
- From Fire and Axe: Private and Early Government Fire Protection 219
- 5 The Heroic Age 239
- 1910: A Fire History of the Northern Rockies 242
- The Forester's Policy: A History of Fire Policy in the U.S. Forest Service 260
- A Moral and Legal Charge: A History of Fire Policy in the Department of the Interior and Interagency Organizations 295
- 6 A Continental Experiment 322
- Fire and Water: A Fire History of the Northwest 327
- Cross Fire: Fire Protection by the States 346
- Under Fire: A History of Manpower in Fire Control 360
- 7 The Cold War on Fire 387
- Firepower: Fire and Warfare 390
- A Burned-Out Case: A Fire History of Southern California 404
- The Best Tools: A History of Fire Equipment 424
- The Red Menace: A History of Rural Fire Defense 450
- 8 Fields of Fire 462
- The Thermal Pulse: A History of Wildland Fire Research 467
- Fire and Frost: A Fire History of Alaska 497
- Fire on the Mountain: A Fire History of the Southwest 514
- Epilogue: The Forbidden Flame 530.