Description: Acknowledgments Foreword: Small Book, Big Story Introduction: Kindling FIRE AND EARTH: CREATING COMBUSTION How Fire Came to Be How Life Accommodated Fire First Fire Today Touched by Fire FRONTIERS OF FIRE (PART 1): FIRE COLONIZING BY HOMINIDS What Made Early Fire s Effective First Contact: When Fire Arrives Lost Contact: When Fire Departs ABORIGINAL FIRE: CONTROLLING THE SPARK Why They Burned Where and How They Burned Dying Fire : When the Fire stick Leaves AGRICULTURAL FIRE: CULTIVATING FUEL The FIre in Agriculture's Hearth How to Cultivate Fire What They Meant to Each Other Rites of Fire FRONTIERS OF FIRE (PART 2): FIRE COLONIZING BY AGRICULTURE How Conversion Leads to Colonization Stories from the Fire Frontier Comings and Goings of Agricultural Fire Today URBAN FIRE: BUILDING HABITATS FOR FIRE Hearth and House: Making a Home for Fire Built to Burn: A Fire Ecology for the City Combustible The Eternal Flame Invisible: Fire in the Industrial City PYROTECHNICS: FIRE AND TECHNOLOGY Prometheus Uncained Cycles of Pyrotechnology: How Fire Has Cooked the Earth Fire Powers: Controlled--and Not-So-Controlled-- Fire as Mover and Shaker Fire in the Mud FRONTIERS OF FIRE (PARK 3): FIRE COLONIZING BY EUROPE How Europe Expanded Fire 's Realm How Europe Contained Fire 's Realm How Europe Redefined Fire 's Realm INDUSTRIAL FIRE: STOKING THE BIG BURN How Industrial Combustion Has Added Fire How Industrial Combustion Has Subtracted Fire How Industrial Combustion Has Rearranged Fire Regimes THE FUTURE OF FIRE: BURNING BEYOND THE MILLENIUM As the World Burns: What Is and Isn't Burning, and Where Still the Keeper of the Flame Selected Sources and Further Reading Index

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