World Fire

The Culture of Fire on Earth

Stephen J. Pyne

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780295805245
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire du monde

Back in Print World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet."Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then ponders Antarctica, the land without fire. As he examines changing techniques for and attitudes toward fire control, Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications."—Booklist"A sweeping historical treatise that examines our world's love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory."—Outside

Index

Aboriginal fire, 11, 13, 16, 225, 258, 291, 303–8, 322

Aborigines

America, 183, 284, 285, 286

Absence of fire, 79

Academy of Sciences (Russia), 143

Accidental fire, 39, 300

Adams, Arthur, 133

Adirondack Forest Preserve, 185–86, 257

Aeneas, 96

Aerial burning (Australia), 41, 42

Aerial fire control, 137, 142, 145, 146, 200–1

Aeschylus, 14, 255

Afforestation, 121, 122, 123–24, 128, 276–77

Africa, 39, 144, 147, 215

Afromontane forest, 52

Agency for International Development (AID), 215

Agni (god of fire), 153–54

Agricultural burning/fire, 23, 308–10, 322

Brazil, 73

Iberia, 112–13, 117

India, 168

Siberia, 133

Sweden, 85

U.S., 68, 183, 184

Agricultural subsidies, 102, 106, 108, 109, 120

Agriculture, 11, 55, 312–13

Africa, 51, 54

Brazil, 64, 65–66

Crete, 108

Iberia, 112, 113–14, 117–18, 119–20, 123

India, 152, 157, 158

livestock in/and, 99, 100

manure-based, 86

and pastoralism, 115

sedentary, 88, 117

Sweden, 81–84, 85, 86, 92

U.S., 221, 224–25, 287

Agronomy/agronomists, 86, 88, 157

classical, 112–13

European, 50, 51, 55, 59, 161, 166

Air as index of environmental health, 320, 323

Air pollution, 325

Air quality, 68, 293

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