Fire And Civilization by Johan Goudsblom
A sweeping social history of how controlling combustion transformed human life, from cooking and heating to metallurgy and urbanization. It shows how the benefits and dangers of flame spurred new disciplines, norms, and institutions—such as fire prevention, brigades, and insurance—while energy shifts from wood to coal and fossil fuels reorganized economies and power relations. Tracing these long-term processes, it argues that the domestication and regulation of fire were central to the making of complex, interdependent societies.
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- 1977
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- Dutch
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- - Vuur en beschaving
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