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9780295975924

Fire in America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780295975924

  • ISBN10:

    029597592X

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

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Summary

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."On rare occasions, the historical literature is enriched by the introduction of a broad new field for study, by a book that dramatically expands the boundaries of scholarly investigation. Stephen Pyne'sFire in Americais such a book. It achieves the Promethean goal of bringing fire to history." --Science"This unusual and imaginative work takes a phenomenon that seems at first glance to be so elemental as to have no history and no evolution, and gives it a dynamic role in the drama of American advance from frontier through agricultural to industrial society. By integrating the history of fire with ecology, agriculture, logging, and resource management, Pyne has made a unique contribution to the history of science and technology, as well as to cultural history in general." --Isis"Stephen J. Pyne compels our admiration for his gargantuan ambition and richly informed intelligence. He tells us more than anyone else to date has about the role of fire in the landscape, tells us we have been wrong in assuming a pristine state of nature before the white man's invasion, tells us what fire has meant to the rise of civilization and this nation. No one interested in environmental history can afford to ignore this massive achievement." --Journal of American History

Author Biography

Stephen J. Pyne is professor of history at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. ix
Forewordp. xi
Preface to the 1997 Paperback Editionp. xv
Preface to the Original Edition: History with Fire in Its Eyep. xix
Abbeviationsp. xxii
Prologue: The Smoke of Timep. 3
Nature's Firep. 6
Electrical Fire: A Natural History of Lightning Firep. 8
The Fire Environment: Principles of Fire Behaviorp. 20
Fire and Life: Principles of Fire Ecologyp. 34
The Burned-Over Districts: A Fire History of the Northeastp. 45
The Fire from Asiap. 66
Our Grandfather Fire: Fire and the American Indianp. 71
These Conflagrated Prairies: A Fire History of the Grasslandsp. 84
Paiute Forestry: A History of the Light-Burning Controversyp. 100
The Fire from Europep. 123
Prometheus Bound: Fire and Europep. 126
Our Pappies Burned the Woods: A Fire History of the Southp. 143
Fire Wolves and Smokey Bears: A History of Fire Preventionp. 161
The Great Barbecuep. 181
The Dragon Devastation: Fire and the Counterreclamationp. 184
Sky of Brass, Earth of Ash: A Fire History of the Lake Statesp. 199
From Fire and Axe: Private and Early Government Fire Protectionp. 219
The Heroic Agep. 239
1910: A Fire History of the Northern Rockiesp. 242
The Forester's Policy: A History of Fire Policy in the U.S. Forest Servicep. 260
A Moral and Legal Charge: A History of Fire Policy in the Department of the Interior and Interagency Organizationsp. 295
A Continental Experimentp. 322
Fire and Water: A Fire History of the Northwestp. 327
Cross Fire: Fire Protection by the Statesp. 346
Under Fire: A History of Manpower in Fire Controlp. 360
The Cold War on Firep. 387
Firepower: Fire and Warfarep. 390
A Burned-Out Case: A Fire History of Southern Californiap. 404
The Best Tools: A History of Fire Equipmentp. 424
The Red Menace: A History of Rural Fire Defensep. 450
Fields of Firep. 462
The Thermal Pulse: A History of Wildland Fire Researchp. 467
Fire and Frost: A Fire History of Alaskap. 497
Fire on the Mountain: A Fire History of the Southwestp. 514
Epilogue: The Forbidden Flamep. 530
Bibliographic Abbreviationsp. 534
Notesp. 535
Bibliographic Essayp. 618
Indexp. 627
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