Description: Contents Foreword by William Cronon Author?s Notes Prologue: Quest for Fire Book 1: Elements Flame Diamond in the Rough: A Physical Geography of European Fire New Worlds from Old: A Biogeography of European Fire Fusain and Flame: A Natural History of European Fire Torch Errant Fire: The Hominid Colonization of Europe Cultivated Fire: The Agricultural Reclamation of Europe Pyrotechnia: The Technology of Combustion Hearth Domiciled Fire: Hearth and House The Fire in the Cave: Combustion and Cognition Need-Fire, Vestal Fire : Ceremony and Ritual Book 2: Europe Eternal Flame: Fire in Mediterranean Europe Prologue: West of Eden Behold, Before a Garden, Behind a Waste Arcadia and Anarchy: Mediterranean Pastorale Grand Traverse: Imperial France Mediterranean Miniature: Cyprus Epilogue: Fin-de Siecle Fire Controlled Combustion: Fire in Central Europe Prologue: Ashes and Embers Landnam: The Fire of First Contact Reclamation: The Fire in the Garden Revolution: The Enlightenment Comes to Agriculture Revolution Redux: Forestry Takes Command Epilogue: Holocaust Wild Hearth: Fire in Boreal Europe Prologue: Fire and Water Fire and Sword: The Historia of Olaus Magnus Fire and Ax: The Finnish Colonization Fire and Field: The Travels of Linnaeus Fire and Iron: The Adventures of Nils Epilogue: Final Flame Flaming Front: Fire in Eurasian Europe Prologue: Wooden Rus' Is like a Fire The Candle and the Torch Lines of Fire, Fields of Fire Emancipation and Suppression When the Sky Burned Epilogue: Fire in the Minds of Men Spot Fires: Fire in Atlantic Europe Prologue: Sparks in the Wind It Was All a Planted Garden: The British Isles Green Fire: The Celtic Isle Northern Mists, Northern Smoke: The Norse Islands Blessed Isles, Burned Isles: The Iberian Islands Epilogue: The World Encompassed Book 3: Earth Islands New Fire: The Coming of Antropogenic Fire Strange Fire: The Coming of European Fire Sacred Fire: The Coming of Conservation Continents Carrying the Fire: Europe Expands Counter Fire: Europe Contains Fire in the Ashes: Europe Rekindles Planets Conduction: The European Connection Radiation: The Neo-Europes Convection: Black Death, Heat Death Epilogue: Beyond the Realm of Fire Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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