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Michael Williams

Deforesting the Earth

From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment

520 pages, 33 halftones, 97 line drawings, 29 tables  6 x 9  © 2006

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226899473   Published September 2006

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
PART I - 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
PART II - 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
PART III - 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
Epilogue: Backward and Forward Glances
Acknowledgments
List of Measures, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
Subjects



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