Prometheus tamed : fire, security, and modernities, 1400 to 1900 / by Cornel Zwierlein.

"Over 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representation of that threat in...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Zwierlein, Cornel (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:	Library of economic history ; v. 13.
Subjects:	Fire ecology. Wildfires > Environmental aspects.
Physical Description:	xv, 547 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
Format:	Book