Fire and civilization
By: Johan Goudsblom.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Fire; Civilization -- History
Notes: Includes index.

Gift of Dr. Joan Rahn.

Bibliography: p. 227-240.
Table of contents: title: The; title: original domestication of fire -- -- The; title: effects of the use of fire in pre-agrarian societies --; title: Fire and agrarianization --; title: Fire in settled agrarian societies --; title: Fire in Ancient Israel --; title: Fire in Ancient Greece and Rome --; title: Fire in Pre-Industrial Europe --; title: Fire in The Industrial Age -- -- The; title: control of fire at different levels.