With Broadax and Firebrand The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Name: With Broadax and Firebrand The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
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ISBN: 9780520208865

ISBN-10: 0520208862

ISBN-13: 9780520208865

Edition: 1996

Authors: Warren Dean, Stuart B. Schwartz

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Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants. Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s--through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/10/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His many books include "All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World".



List of Maps


Foreword



Acknowledgments



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


Notes


Pronouncing Glossary


Index