Five Suns (eBook)

A Fire History of Mexico

Stephen J. Pyne (Autor)

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2024
432 Seiten
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-5340-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A climate defined by wet and dry seasons, a mostly mountainous terrain, a biota prone to disturbances, a human geography characterized by a diversity of peoples all of whom rely on burning in one form or another: Mexico has ideal circumstances for fire, and those fires provide a unique perspective on its complex history. Narrating Mexico's evolution of fire through five eras, historian Stephen J. Pyne describes the pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880-1980), and contemporary (1980-2015) fire biography of this diverse and dynamic country. Creatively deploying the Aztec New Fire Ceremony and the "e;five suns"e; that it birthed, Pyne addresses the question, "e;Why does fire appear in Mexico the way it does?"e; Five Suns tells the saga through a pyric prism. Mexico has become one of the top ten "e;firepowers"e; in the world today through its fire suppression capabilities, fire research, and industrial combustion, but also by those continuing customary practices that have become increasingly significant to a world that suffers too much combustion and too little fire. Five Suns completes a North American fire-history trilogy written by Pyne over the past 40 years, complementing his histories of Canada and the United States.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8165-5340-8 / 0816553408
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-5340-2 / 9780816553402