Fire and CivilizationAllen Lane, 1992 - 247 oldal Fire is a destructive force. It is also a great purveyor of the advancement of human life. In an exploration of this dichotomy, Goudsblom investigates man and his realtionship to--and fascination with--combustion from every possible perspective--historical, archaeological, anthropological, psychological, biological, ecological, and sociological--illuminating the legacy of fire on world history. |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 3 találat összesen 31 találatból.
101. oldal
... historian Herodotus already knew , a matter of cultural variation . These variations were likely to be influenced , in turn , by such factors as the conditions of the soil and the abundance or scarcity of firewood . According to the ...
... historian Herodotus already knew , a matter of cultural variation . These variations were likely to be influenced , in turn , by such factors as the conditions of the soil and the abundance or scarcity of firewood . According to the ...
108. oldal
... historian Victor D. Hanson has called ' agricultural devastation ' : the wholesale plundering and destruction of the countryside . Fire was a favourite means for destroying houses and property and , in early summer when the grain was ...
... historian Victor D. Hanson has called ' agricultural devastation ' : the wholesale plundering and destruction of the countryside . Fire was a favourite means for destroying houses and property and , in early summer when the grain was ...
115. oldal
... historian Plutarch , in his Lives , wrote of Crassus , ' the largest part of Rome came into his possession . '38 A similar story was told about the politician Egnatius Rufus , who , during the latter days of the Republic , had raised a ...
... historian Plutarch , in his Lives , wrote of Crassus , ' the largest part of Rome came into his possession . '38 A similar story was told about the politician Egnatius Rufus , who , during the latter days of the Republic , had raised a ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Fire Civilization The domestication of fire as a civilizing process Plan | 8 |
The stage of predominantly passive use of fire The transition to active use of fire | 20 |
The widening gap between humans and other animals Clearing land Cooking | 37 |
Copyright | |
10 további fejezet nem látható
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
According agrarian societies altar ancient animals anthropologist archaeologist arson became behaviour bush caused chimpanzees civilizing campaign civilizing process combustion conflagrations continued control fire control of fire control over fire cooking cultivation cultural destruction domestication of fire dominant early ecological effect Elias Elijah Empire energy fire brigade fire regime flames force forest fuel gathering and hunting Greek fire handling fire Hanunóo Hattusa hearth heat Hephaestus Herodotus Hesiod Hestia highly historian hominids Homo erectus houses human groups Iliad incendiarism increasing increasingly individual industrial intensive growth Israel Israelites Jones land later learned light living long run Lord military military-agrarian modern Molech natural Norbert Elias nuclear fusion Odysseus organization peasants Perlès population priests problem production pyrophytes religion Roman Rome set fire Shifting Cultivation slash and burn smoke social socio-cultural steam technical temple towns trend twentieth century urban weapons Western Europe wood