Fire and Civilization

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1992
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This book is a history of man's relationship with fire, from his earliest prehistoric taming of this most basic elemental force, through to the Industrial Revolution, nuclear fission and beyond. The book is primarily a social history of man's control - and failure to control - fire, and of his uses, agricultural, industrial, symbolic and artistic of it.

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This book is a history of man's relationship with fire, from his earliest prehistoric taming of this most basic elemental force, through to the Industrial Revolution, nuclear fission and beyond. The book is primarily a social history of man's control - and failure to control - fire, and of his uses, agricultural, industrial, symbolic and artistic of it.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: 1st Edition.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 24 Sep 1992
ISBN 10: 0713990775
ISBN 13: 9780713990775

Fire and Civilization

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