5. Frontiers of fire (part 2) : fire colonizing by agriculture

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: Small Book, Big Story xi
5. Introduction: Kindling xv
6. 1. Fire and Earth: Creating combustion 1
7. 2. Frontiers of fire (part 1 ): fire colonizing by hominids 27
8. 3. Aboriginal fire: controlling the spark 46
9. 4. Agricultural fire: cultivating fuel 65
10. 5. Frontiers of fire (part 2) : fire colonizing by agriculture 87
11. 6. Urban fire: building habitats for fire 102
12. 7. Pyrotechnics: fire and technology 119
13. 8. Frontiers of fire (part 3) : fire colonizing by Europe 139
14. 9. Industrial fire: stoking the big burn 155
15. 10. The future of fire: burning beyond the millennium 172
16. Selected Sources and Further Reading 187
17. Index 195