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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Williams, Michael, 1935 June 24- Deforesting the earth. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005034150 (OCoLC)62342135 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Williams |
ISBN: | 9780226899053 0226899055 9780226899473 0226899470 1282659901 9781282659902 9786612659904 6612659904 |
OCLC Number: | 648761654 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 543 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Illustrations; Preface; Part I: Clearing in the Deep Past; 1. The Return of the Forest; 2. Fire and Foragers; 3. The First Farmers; 4. The Classical World; 5. The Medieval World; Part II: Reaching Out: Europe and the Wider World; 6. Driving Forces and Cultural Climates, 1500-1750; 7. Clearing in Europe, 1500-1750; 8. The Wider World, 1500-1750; 9. Driving Forces and Cultural Climates, 1750-1900; 10. Clearing in the Temperate World, 1750-1920; 11. Clearing in the Tropical World, 1750-1920; Part III: The Global Forest; 12. Scares and Solutions, 1900-1944 13. The Great Onslaught, 1945-95: Dimensions of Change14. The Great Onslaught, 1945-1995: Patterns of Change; Epilogue: Backward and Forward Glances; Acknowledgments; List of Measures, Abbreviations, and Acronyms; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index |
Responsibility: | Michael Williams. |
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"Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping survey. This is rich, timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured, non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only hopes (almost certainly vainly) that today's policymakers take its lessons to heart." - Brian Fagan, Los Angeles Times "The most comprehensive account ever written of when, where, and how humans have wrought what is surely the most dramatic change in Earth's surface since the end of the Pleistocene.... The book is not simply about deforestation but about every aspect of human use of the forest and the forces that drive this use." - Brian Donahue, Science" Read more...


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