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Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico

Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesMexican History

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ISBN10: 0816553394
ISBN13: 9780816553396
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Apr 30 2024
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
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 five suns that it birthed, Pyne addresses the question, Why does fire appear in Mexico the way it does? Five Suns tells the saga through a pyric prism.

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