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Undying Fire: A Fire History of Europe
By (author) Stephen J. Pyne
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Europe’s unquenchable flames, from hearth to Pyrocene, reveal a civilization’s combustible coreThis work offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame—and a history of fire refracted through Europe’s landscapes, sciences, and empires. Drawing on and substantially updating his classic Vestal Fire, Stephen J. Pyne’s incisive new volume follows fire from Iceland’s oceanic fringes to the Siberian taiga and the Mediterranean’s blaze-prone rim, showing how Europe’s peculiar geography, history, and culture forged a singular pact with combustion. Organized in three sections, it moves from the elements of practice and ideas that make up Europe’s core fire narrative to vivid portraits of five fire provinces (Mediterranean, Central, Boreal, Eurasian, and Atlantic) before turning to the global consequences of European expansion. Tracking millennia of human-made fire, Pyne reveals a relationship in which Europe’s elites sought to keep fire a servant, ever more tightly controlled. The transition to a fossil-fueled modernity, however, led to a paradox in which Europe lost its mastery as land use, climate, and flame turned feral and the Earth pivoted toward a Pyrocene in which humanity’s binge burning created a fire age to rival the ice ages. The result is both a lucid synthesis and a provocation: what Europe’s global expansion set into motion has returned to kindle a resurgence of wildfire across the continent, starkly visible in the heat-dome summers of the 2020s. As tool, ecological process, threat, and symbol, fire illuminates Europe’s past—and its environmental futures.
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Publisher | University of Washington Press
Published date | 30 Jun 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 328
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 531g
ISBN | 978-0-2957-5486-4
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BISAC | history / europe / general
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Price | R 1 529.95
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