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This text chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. Based on documentary and scientific resources, the book is a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective.

Table of Contents
List of Maps
Foreword by Stuart B. Schwartz
Acknowledgments

1 THE FOREST EVOLVES
2 HUMANS INVADE: THE FIRST WAVE
3 HUMANS INVADE: THE SECOND WAVE
4 ESTRANGEMENT: DEPOPULATION AND THE REGROWN FOREST
5 GOLD AND DIAMONDS, ANTS AND CATTLE
6 SCIENCE DISCOVERS THE FOREST
7 THE FOREST UNDER BRAZILIAN RULE
8 COFFEE DISPOSSESSES THE FOREST
9 INSTRUMENTS OF DEVASTATION
10 SPECULATION AND CONSERVATION
11 INDUSTRIAL NOMADISM, PREDATORY INDUSTRIALISM
12 THE DEVELOPMENT IMPERATIVE
13 UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS
14 GETTING IT OFF THE PAPER
15 THE VALUE OF BARE GROUND

Notes
Pronouncing Glossary
Index

With Broadax and Firebrand The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Centennial Book

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/04/1997
      ISBN13: 9780520208865, 978-0520208865
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. Based on documentary and scientific resources, the book is a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective.

      Table of Contents
      List of Maps
      Foreword by Stuart B. Schwartz
      Acknowledgments

      1 THE FOREST EVOLVES
      2 HUMANS INVADE: THE FIRST WAVE
      3 HUMANS INVADE: THE SECOND WAVE
      4 ESTRANGEMENT: DEPOPULATION AND THE REGROWN FOREST
      5 GOLD AND DIAMONDS, ANTS AND CATTLE
      6 SCIENCE DISCOVERS THE FOREST
      7 THE FOREST UNDER BRAZILIAN RULE
      8 COFFEE DISPOSSESSES THE FOREST
      9 INSTRUMENTS OF DEVASTATION
      10 SPECULATION AND CONSERVATION
      11 INDUSTRIAL NOMADISM, PREDATORY INDUSTRIALISM
      12 THE DEVELOPMENT IMPERATIVE
      13 UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS
      14 GETTING IT OFF THE PAPER
      15 THE VALUE OF BARE GROUND

      Notes
      Pronouncing Glossary
      Index

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