Mark Hudson is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Global Political Economy Program at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

"Fire Management in the American West makes a valuable contribution to the literature on wildland fire, the Forest Service, and public land management. I applaud Hudson for approaching wildfire from a different discipline, for it yields a more complex history and brings us closer to the truth." —Lincoln Bramwell, U.S. Forest Service, Environmental History

• Introduction; The Social Dimensions of Wildfire; Managing in the Wake of the Ax; Out of the Frying Pan: Catastrophic Fire as a "Crisis of Crisis Management"; The Weight of Past Weakness: Prospects for Ecological Modernization in Fire Management; Conclusion: The Chronic Parolee; Index.

Mark Hudson is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Global Political Economy Program at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

"Fire Management in the American West makes a valuable contribution to the literature on wildland fire, the Forest Service, and public land management. I applaud Hudson for approaching wildfire from a different discipline, for it yields a more complex history and brings us closer to the truth." —Lincoln Bramwell, U.S. Forest Service, Environmental History

• Introduction; The Social Dimensions of Wildfire; Managing in the Wake of the Ax; Out of the Frying Pan: Catastrophic Fire as a "Crisis of Crisis Management"; The Weight of Past Weakness: Prospects for Ecological Modernization in Fire Management; Conclusion: The Chronic Parolee; Index.

Mark Hudson is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Global Political Economy Program at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

"Fire Management in the American West makes a valuable contribution to the literature on wildland fire, the Forest Service, and public land management. I applaud Hudson for approaching wildfire from a different discipline, for it yields a more complex history and brings us closer to the truth." —Lincoln Bramwell, U.S. Forest Service, Environmental History

• Introduction; The Social Dimensions of Wildfire; Managing in the Wake of the Ax; Out of the Frying Pan: Catastrophic Fire as a "Crisis of Crisis Management"; The Weight of Past Weakness: Prospects for Ecological Modernization in Fire Management; Conclusion: The Chronic Parolee; Index.