With broadax and firebrand the destruc tion of the Brazilian Atlantic forest / [electronic resource] :
Warren Dean.
- 1st pbk. printing.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, c1995.
- xx, 482 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-440) and index.
forest evolves -- Humans invade: the first wave -- Huma ns invade: the second wave -- Estrangement: depopulation and the reg rown forest -- Gold and diamonds, ants and cattle -- Science disc overs the forest -- The forest under Brazilian rule -- Coffee dis possesses the forest -- Instruments of devastation -- Speculation and conservation -- Industrial nomadism, predatory industrialism -- The development imperative -- Unsustainable developments -- G etting it off the paper -- The value of bare ground. The
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 a ccess: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.
Deforestation-- History.-- Brazil-- Atlantic Coast Rain forests-- History.-- Brazil-- Atlantic Coast Nature-- Effect of human beings on-- H istory.-- Brazil-- Atlantic Coast
Atlantic Coast (Brazil)-- Environmental conditions-- History.