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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173. oldal
... twentieth century , fire is used . Cars are set in motion by burning fossil fuel . They are made of steel , plastic and glass materials produced and processed at high temperatures . Yet someone who gets into his or her vehicle and turns ...
... twentieth century , fire is used . Cars are set in motion by burning fossil fuel . They are made of steel , plastic and glass materials produced and processed at high temperatures . Yet someone who gets into his or her vehicle and turns ...
175. oldal
... century , the large investments made in their factories impelled many owners to let the engines run day and night . Gaslight illuminated the workplace . In the twentieth century night - life has steadily extended , especially in the ...
... century , the large investments made in their factories impelled many owners to let the engines run day and night . Gaslight illuminated the workplace . In the twentieth century night - life has steadily extended , especially in the ...
202. oldal
... twentieth century end with a spectacular fire climax - a cathartic scene in which the main character sets fire to his or her house and perishes in the flames.17 The individual psychopathology of firesetting may thus be seen to reflect a ...
... twentieth century end with a spectacular fire climax - a cathartic scene in which the main character sets fire to his or her house and perishes in the flames.17 The individual psychopathology of firesetting may thus be seen to reflect 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 |
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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