04687nam 2200805 a 450 99624795830331620221108094137.00-585-13048-50-520-91908-42027/heb02364(CKB)1000000000396359(dli)HEB02364(SSID)ssj0000272828(PQKBManifestationID)12044742(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272828(PQKBWorkID)10309641(PQKB)11248584(SSID)ssj0000085038(PQKBManifestationID)11987621(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085038(PQKBWorkID)10012160(PQKB)11569018(MiU)MIU01000000000000003898707(DE-B1597)649164(DE-B1597)9780520919082(EXLCZ)99100000000039635920040517h19971995 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrWith broadax and firebrand the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest /Warren Dean1st pbk. printing.Berkeley University of California Press1997, c19951 online resource (xx, 482 p. )maps ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-20886-2 0-520-08775-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-440) and index.Theforest 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 -- Theforest under Brazilian rule --Coffee dispossesses the forest --Instruments of devastation --Speculation and conservation --Industrial nomadism, predatory industrialism -- Thedevelopment imperative --Unsustainable developments --Getting it off the paper -- Thevalue of bare ground.Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants.Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s-through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing devastation wrought by such developments as gold and diamond mining, slash-and-burn farming, coffee planting, and industrialization; and the desperate battles between conservationists and developers in the late twentieth century.Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book. More than a history of a tropical forest, or of the relationship between forest and humans, it is also a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective. Dean writes passionately and movingly, in the fierce hope that the story of the Atlantic Forest will serve as a warning of the terrible costs of destroying its great neighbor to the west, the Amazon Forest.ACLS Humanities E-Book.DeforestationBrazilAtlantic CoastHistoryRain forestsBrazilAtlantic CoastHistoryNatureEffect of human beings onBrazilAtlantic CoastHistoryForestryHILCCEarth & Environmental SciencesHILCCDeforestationHistoryAtlantic CoastBrazilRain forestsHistoryBrazilAtlantic CoastNatureEffect of human beings onHistoryBrazilAtlantic CoastAtlantic Coast (Brazil)Environmental conditionsHistoryDeforestationHistory.Rain forestsHistory.NatureEffect of human beings onHistory.ForestryEarth & Environmental SciencesDeforestationHistoryRain forestsHistoryNatureEffect of human beings onHistory304.2/8/098109152Dean Warren1002316Schwartz Stuart BAmerican Council of Learned Societies.MiUMiUBOOK996247958303316With broadax and firebrand2300459UNISA