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With Broadax and Firebrand
Language: en
Pages: 506
Authors: Warren Dean
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"An unprecedented historical account of the destruction of Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a required reading for those committed to its preservation, written with ge
With Broadax and Firebrand
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Warren Dean
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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 quar
An Environmental History of Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Shawn William Miller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations an
Fruitless Trees
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Shawn William Miller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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By and large, Brazil's forests were not simply harvested by the Portugese colonists, but rather annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit
What is Environmental History?
Language: en
Pages: 187
Authors: J. Donald Hughes
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-30 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the r