Fire: a brief history

Introduction: Kindling xv --

1. Fire and Earth: Creating Combustion 3 --

Touched by Fire 24 --

2. Frontiers of Fire (Part 1): Fire Colonizing by Hominids 27 --

3. Aboriginal Fire: Controlling the Spark 46 --

4. Agricultural Fire: Cultivating Fuel 65 --

Rites of Fire 85 --

5. Frontiers of Fire (Part 2): Fire Colonizing by Agriculture 87 --

6. Urban Fire: Building Habitats for Fire 102 --

7. Pyrotechnics: Fire and Technology 119 --

Fire in the Mind 137 --

8. Frontiers of Fire (Part 3): Fire Colonizing by Europe 139 --

9. Industrial Fire: Stoking the Big Burn 155 --

10. Future of Fire: Burning Beyond the Millennium 172.