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. |
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166. oldal
... STEAM ENGINE AND THE SAFETY MATCH There is a plausible and direct association between the image of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine . Engravings from the first half of the nineteenth century show the British industrial ...
... STEAM ENGINE AND THE SAFETY MATCH There is a plausible and direct association between the image of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine . Engravings from the first half of the nineteenth century show the British industrial ...
170. oldal
... steam . These vast structures keep air and light out of the human habitations which they dominate ; they envelop them in perpetual fog ; here is the slave , there the master ; there is the wealth of some , here the poverty of most ...
... steam . These vast structures keep air and light out of the human habitations which they dominate ; they envelop them in perpetual fog ; here is the slave , there the master ; there is the wealth of some , here the poverty of most ...
247. oldal
... steam engines , 166-70 steam ships , 168 Steinen , Karl von den , 13-15 Sterkfontein , South Africa , 25 Stewart , Omer C. , 3 , 29 stone - splitting , 37 ' stonification ' , 148 , 147 Suetonius , 116 survival units , 38 Swartkrans ...
... steam engines , 166-70 steam ships , 168 Steinen , Karl von den , 13-15 Sterkfontein , South Africa , 25 Stewart , Omer C. , 3 , 29 stone - splitting , 37 ' stonification ' , 148 , 147 Suetonius , 116 survival units , 38 Swartkrans ...
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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 |
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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