Title With broadax and firebrand : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest / Warren Dean

Edition 1st pbk. print Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 482 pages) : maps Series History e-book project 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 Analysis Forests Exploitation History Brazil Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-440) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Deforestation -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History Rain forests -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. Deforestation Ecology Nature -- Effect of human beings on Rain forests Forestry. Earth & Environmental Sciences. SUBJECT Atlantic Coast (Brazil) -- Environmental conditions -- History Subject Brazil -- Atlantic Coast Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520919082 0520919084 0585130485 9780585130484 9780520208865 0520208862

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