With broadax and firebrand : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest / Warren Dean.
- Dean, Warren
- Date:
- 1997, ©1995
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, ©1995.
Physical description
xx, 482 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Series
Edition
1st pbk. printing.
Contents
The forest evolves -- Humans invade: the first wave -- Humans invade: the second wave -- Estrangement: depopulation and the regrown forest -- Gold and diamonds, ants and cattle -- Science discovers the forest -- The forest under Brazilian rule -- Coffee dispossesses the forest -- Instruments of devastation -- Speculation and conservation -- Industrial nomadism, predatory industrialism -- The development imperative -- Unsustainable developments -- Getting it off the paper -- The value of bare ground.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-440) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2004. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.