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Fruitless Trees : Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber /
For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Bra...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Colonial Landscape: Timber, Forests, and Soils
- 2 Forest Policy with Portuguese Roots
- 3 Brazil's Timber in the Atlantic Basin
- 4 The Tropical Woodsman
- 5 Ax, Ox, and Sawmill: Techniques and Technology
- 6 Cabotage and Transatlantic Shipping
- 7 Shipbuilding and Tropical Timber
- Conclusion: Anonyms for Free Enterprise
- Appendixes
- Appendix A An Inventory of Timbers Encountered in Colonial Documents for Shipbuilding, Construction, and Cabinetwork, c. 1710-1820
- Appendix B Colonial Weights, Measures, and Coinage
- Appendix C Tool List Required to Establish a New Corte in Paraiba, 1788
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index