Settin' the woods on fire: Rural incendiarism as protest

Geographical Review

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 343-363

  Kuhlken, Robert ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Land tenure; Peasant revolt; Political ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000356747     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/216155     Document Type: Article

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