Book ID: CBB000650696

Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (2000)

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Miller, Shawn William (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xiii + 325 pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Concerns forestry practices in colonial Brazil from about 1650 to 1850.


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Review Palmer, Allen W. (2002) Review of "Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber". Environmental History (p. 127). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beattie, James
Monchet, Koldo Trápaga
Núñez, Paula Gabriela
Arroyo, Felix Labrador
Matteson, Kieko
Duffy, Andrea
Journals
Environmental History
Istoriko-Biologicheskie Issledovaniia
Environment and History
Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Technology and Culture
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Forests and forestry
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental sciences
Environmental history
Colonialism
Natural history
People
Pinchot, Gifford
Muir, John
Marsh, George Perkins
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
20th century
16th century
Places
United States
Prussia (Germany)
New Zealand
France
Philippines
Algeria
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
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