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Vestal Fire An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter With the World

Name: Vestal Fire
Author: Stephen J. Pyne

Auteur: Stephen J. Pyne

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Stephen J. Pyne William Cronon

Engels
Paperback
9780295979489
01 maart 2000
672 pagina's

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Stephen J. Pyne

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor of history at Arizona State University, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and winner of the 1995 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for Arts and Letters. His book The Ice was named one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. His eleven groundbreaking books include the five-volume Cycle of Fire. He lives in Glendale, Arizona.

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Depicts a history of the western conception, practice and response to fire.

Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a remarkable contribution--breathtaking in the scope of its research and exhilarating to read.

Pyne takes the reader on a journey through time, exploring the terrain of Europe and the uses and abuses of its lands as well as, through migration and conquest, many parts of the rest of the world. Whether he is discussing the Mediterranean region, Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles, central Europe, or colonized islands; whether he is considering the impact of agriculture, forestry, or Enlightenment thinking, the author brings an unmatched insight to his subject.

Vestal Fire takes its title from Vesta, Roman goddess of the hearth and keeper of the sacred fire on Mount Olympus. But the book's title also suggests the strengths and limitations of Europe's peculiar conception of fire, and through fire, of its relationship to nature. Between the untamed fire of the wilderness and the tended fire of the hearth lies a never-ending dialectic in which human beings struggle to control natural forces and processes that in fact can sometimes be directed but never wholly dominated or contained.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 maart 2000
Aantal pagina's: 672
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Stephen J. Pyne
Tweede Auteur: William Cronon
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Washington Press

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Editie: illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 159 mm
Product hoogte: 38 mm
Product lengte: 241 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm
Verpakking lengte: 241 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 998 g

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EAN: 9780295979489

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