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With broadax and firebrand [electronic resource] : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest / Warren Dean.
Dean, Warren, author.; American Council of Learned Societies.
1997
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Title
With broadax and firebrand [electronic resource] : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest / Warren Dean.
Edition
1st pbk. printing.
Created/published
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, ©1995.
Description
xx, 482 p. : maps ; 23 cm
Associated name
Dean, Warren, author.
American Council of Learned Societies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-440) and index.
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.
Reproduction
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.
Series
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
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