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• catalog abstract "Since humans first appeared on the earth, we've been cutting down trees for fuel and shelter. Indeed, the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests are among the most important ways humans have transformed the global environment. With the onset of industrialization and colonization the process has accelerated, as agriculture, metal smelting, trade, war, territorial expansion, and even cultural aversion to forests have all taken their toll. Michael Williams surveys ten thousand years of history to trace how, why, and when human-induced deforestation has shaped economies, societies, and landscapes around the world. Beginning with the return of the forests to Europe, North America, and the tropics after the Ice Ages, Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic through the classical world and the Middle Ages. He then continues the story from the 1500s to the early 1900s, focusing on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, in such places as the New World and India, China, Japan, and Latin America. Finally, he covers the present-day and alarming escalation of deforestation, with the ever-increasing human population placing a possibly unsupportable burden on the world's forests. Accessible and nonsensationalist, Deforesting the Earth provides the historical and geographical background we need for a deeper understanding of deforestation's tremendous impact on the environment and the people who inhabit it.".
• catalog contributor b12717615.
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-661).".
• catalog description "Since humans first appeared on the earth, we've been cutting down trees for fuel and shelter. Indeed, the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests are among the most important ways humans have transformed the global environment. With the onset of industrialization and colonization the process has accelerated, as agriculture, metal smelting, trade, war, territorial expansion, and even cultural aversion to forests have all taken their toll. Michael Williams surveys ten thousand years of history to trace how, why, and when human-induced deforestation has shaped economies, societies, and landscapes around the world. Beginning with the return of the forests to Europe, North America, and the tropics after the Ice Ages, Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic through the classical world and the Middle Ages. He then continues the story from the 1500s to the early 1900s, focusing on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, in such places as the New World and India, China, Japan, and Latin America. Finally, he covers the present-day and alarming escalation of deforestation, with the ever-increasing human population placing a possibly unsupportable burden on the world's forests. Accessible and nonsensationalist, Deforesting the Earth provides the historical and geographical background we need for a deeper understanding of deforestation's tremendous impact on the environment and the people who inhabit it.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Clearing in the deep past -- 1. The return of the forest -- 2. Fire and foragers -- 3. The first farmers -- 4. The classical world -- 5. The medieval world -- pt. 2. Reaching out : Europe and the wider world -- 6. Driving forces and cultural climates, 1500-1750 -- 7. Clearing in Europe, 1500-1750 -- 8. The wider world, 1500-1750 -- 9. Driving forces and cultural climates, 1750-1900 -- 10. Clearing in the temperate world, 1750-1920 -- 11. Clearing in the tropical world, 1750-1920 -- pt. 3. The global forest -- 12. Scares and solutions, 1900-1944 -- 13. The great onslaught, 1945-95 : dimensions of change -- 14. The great onslaught, 1945-95 : patterns of change.".
• catalog extent "xxvi, 689 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0226899268 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
• catalog subject "333.75/137 21".
• catalog subject "Clearing of land History.".
• catalog subject "Deforestation History.".
• catalog subject "Forests and forestry History.".
• catalog subject "SD131 .W53 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Clearing in the deep past -- 1. The return of the forest -- 2. Fire and foragers -- 3. The first farmers -- 4. The classical world -- 5. The medieval world -- pt. 2. Reaching out : Europe and the wider world -- 6. Driving forces and cultural climates, 1500-1750 -- 7. Clearing in Europe, 1500-1750 -- 8. The wider world, 1500-1750 -- 9. Driving forces and cultural climates, 1750-1900 -- 10. Clearing in the temperate world, 1750-1920 -- 11. Clearing in the tropical world, 1750-1920 -- pt. 3. The global forest -- 12. Scares and solutions, 1900-1944 -- 13. The great onslaught, 1945-95 : dimensions of change -- 14. The great onslaught, 1945-95 : patterns of change.".
• catalog title "Deforesting the earth : from prehistory to global crisis / Michael Williams.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".