With broadax and firebrand the destruc tion of the Brazilian Atlantic forest - Dean, Warren; American Council of Learned Societies (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997)
The 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-440) and index.
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Keywords: Deforestation -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History; Rain forests -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- H istory; Atlantic Coast (Brazil) -- Environmental conditions -- History