Fire and CivilizationAllen Lane, 1992 - 247 من الصفحات 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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الصفحة 115
... politicians and businessmen to set up fire brigades of their own , organized as a familia privata . Thus we are told how ... political support . It was partly in order to forestall his rise to power that in AD 6 , after another serious ...
... politicians and businessmen to set up fire brigades of their own , organized as a familia privata . Thus we are told how ... political support . It was partly in order to forestall his rise to power that in AD 6 , after another serious ...
الصفحة 118
... political club . It is a better policy then to provide the equipment necessary for dealing with fires , and to instruct property owners to make use of it , calling on the help of the crowds which collect if they find it necessary . ( 10 ...
... political club . It is a better policy then to provide the equipment necessary for dealing with fires , and to instruct property owners to make use of it , calling on the help of the crowds which collect if they find it necessary . ( 10 ...
الصفحة 208
... political will . - From burning roadblocks to actual arson is but a small step . During riots , public buildings – law courts , police stations , tax offices , head- quarters of ruling political parties - form a favourite - form a ...
... political will . - From burning roadblocks to actual arson is but a small step . During riots , public buildings – law courts , police stations , tax offices , head- quarters of ruling political parties - form a favourite - form a ...
المحتوى
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