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- catalog abstract ""For the most part, the forests of colonial Brazil 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 Brazil's incomparable timber." "Challenging previous scholarship that simply ascribed the destruction of Brazil's remarkable forests to the Europeans' voracious greed and inherent hostility to the forest, the author argues that we must delineate the extent to which topical timber was put to advantageous ends, and explore precisely why so large a proportion of Brazil's timber was incinerated rather than converted to colonial wealth."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11319876.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""For the most part, the forests of colonial Brazil 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 Brazil's incomparable timber." "Challenging previous scholarship that simply ascribed the destruction of Brazil's remarkable forests to the Europeans' voracious greed and inherent hostility to the forest, the author argues that we must delineate the extent to which topical timber was put to advantageous ends, and explore precisely why so large a proportion of Brazil's timber was incinerated rather than converted to colonial wealth."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-316) and index.".
- catalog description "The Colonial Landscape: Timber, Forests, and Soils -- Forest Policy with Portuguese Roots -- Brazil's Timber in the Atlantic Basin -- The Tropical Woodsman -- Ax, Ox, and Sawmill: Techniques and Technology -- Cabotage and Transatlantic Shipping -- Shipbuilding and Tropical Timber -- Conclusion: Anonyms for Free Enterprise -- An Inventory of Timbers Encountered in Colonial Documents for Shipbuilding, Construction, and Cabinetwork, c. 1710-1820 -- Colonial Weights, Measures, and Coinage -- Tool List Required to Establish a New Corte in Paraiba, 1788.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 325 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804733961 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Brazil.".
- catalog subject "338.1/749/0981 21".
- catalog subject "Forest ecology Brazil.".
- catalog subject "Forest policy Brazil.".
- catalog subject "Forests and forestry Economic aspects Brazil.".
- catalog subject "SD159 .M56 2000".
- catalog subject "Timber Economic aspects Brazil.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Colonial Landscape: Timber, Forests, and Soils -- Forest Policy with Portuguese Roots -- Brazil's Timber in the Atlantic Basin -- The Tropical Woodsman -- Ax, Ox, and Sawmill: Techniques and Technology -- Cabotage and Transatlantic Shipping -- Shipbuilding and Tropical Timber -- Conclusion: Anonyms for Free Enterprise -- An Inventory of Timbers Encountered in Colonial Documents for Shipbuilding, Construction, and Cabinetwork, c. 1710-1820 -- Colonial Weights, Measures, and Coinage -- Tool List Required to Establish a New Corte in Paraiba, 1788.".
- catalog title "Fruitless trees : Portuguese conservation and Brazil's colonial timber / Shawn William Miller.".
- catalog type "text".