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With broadax and firebrand, the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest, Warren Dean

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With broadax and firebrand, the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest, Warren Dean
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-440) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
With broadax and firebrand
Nature of contents
bibliography
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29911015
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Warren Dean
Sub title
the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest
Table Of Contents
The forest evolves -- Humans invade: the first wave -- Humans invade: the second wave -- Estrangement: depopulation and the regrown forest -- Gold and diamonds, ants and cattle -- Science discovers the forest -- The forest under Brazilian rule -- Coffee dispossesses the forest -- Instruments of devastation -- Speculation and conservation -- Industrial nomadism, predatory industrialism -- The development imperative -- Unsustainable developments -- Getting it off the paper -- The value of bare ground
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