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Read eBook Fruitless Trees : Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Shawn William Miller, Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber, Stanford University Press, 2000. 325 pp. 35, $55 hb. 0 8047 3398 Agriculture is an important industry in Brazil, as this country has immense agricultural resources available to it. Its most significant products in this sphere are coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus and beef (in order of importance). Shawn W. Miller is the author of Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (2000), and has published on Latin America's environmental history in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Forest & Conservation History, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Miller is the author of Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil Colonial Timber (2000), and has published on Latin America environmental history around the world, from New Zealand and Japan to Britain and Brazil. Régime (Paris: Economica, 1984); on Portugal, Shawn Miller, Fruitless. Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1. Análise Social,Número 167, Volume XXXVIII, 2003. Miller, Shawn William, Fruitless. Trees Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. 3 The Colonial Balance Sheet. 77 Shawn W. Miller is the author of Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (2000), and has Download this popular ebook and read the Fruitless Trees Portuguese Conservation And Brazils. Colonial Timber ebook. You'll not find this ebook anywhere Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil: the Economic and Social Consequences of Fuel Depletion for the Bahian Recôncavo, 1549 1820, in: Forest Fruitless Trees. Portuguese Conservation and Brazilʼs Colonial Timber, Stanford 2000. Stilt-root Download this nice ebook and read the Fruitless Trees Portuguese Conservation And Brazils. Colonial Timber ebook. You won't find this ebook anywhere Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber. The forests have always been Brazil's most striking natural resource, and the Portuguese colonists anticipated enormous returns from its harvest, since Brazilian timber was more abundant and superior in quality to anything known in Europe, North America, or even Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Add to Wishlist. ISBN-10: 0804733961; ISBN-13: 9780804733960; Pub. Located at the center of Karen Tei Yamashita s novel Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990) is the Matacão, a vast expanse of thick, mysterious black plastic that has emerged in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon. When scientists uncover a means to extract it, the Brazilian government s chief concern is to maximize domestic profit. Diogo de Carvalho Cabral - Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber, Stanford Colonists chafed under such restrictions, and colonial officials found it difficult to W. Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Fruitless Trees (9780804733960) Shawn William Miller and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. It is also the only Portuguese-speaking country in both North and South America. This Portuguese heritage dates back to the 1700 s, when Brazil was first colonised this European nation. During its rich and complex history, slavery was a major part of the Brazilian heritage, although this was never formally recorded in the annals of history Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber: Shawn Miller: Libros en idiomas extranjeros. Download Citation on ResearchGate | On Mar 1, 2002, Michelle Keown and others published The Samoan Sisyphus: Camus and Colonialism in Albert Wendt s Leaves of the Banyan Tree For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber. The forests have always been Brazil's most striking natural resource, and the Portuguese Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber, Shawn William Miller. Sterling EvansRelated information. Humboldt 2000, English, Book, Illustrated edition: Fruitless trees:Portuguese conservation and Brazil's colonial timber / Shawn William Miller. Miller, Shawn William, 1964-. Deforestation has been a problem in Brazil since colonial times, when Portuguese settlers cut native Pau Brasil trees that yielded red ink and helped give the country its name, Rossetti said. Emphasis: Colonial Latin America, Brazil, Environmental History Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Stanford: Stanford Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Shawn William Miller. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. Xiii, 325. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth. This important contribution to the growing field of conservation and environmental history argues that the uncommon destruction of Brazil's forests was a direct result of Portuguese forest [Recensão crítica da obra de:] Shawn William Miller ?Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber? In Hispanic American Historical Deforestation has been a problem in Brazil since colonial times, when Portuguese settlers cut native "Pau Brasil" trees that yielded red ink and helped give the country its name, Rossetti said. Allen Palmer, Brigham Young University, Communications Department, Emeritus. Studies Communication, Media Studies, and Communications. Miller, Shawn William. Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. TY - BOOK TI - Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil s Colonial Timber AU - Miller, Shawn William SP - 344 CY - Stanford PB - Stanford University Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Shawn William Miller. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. Xiii, 325. $55.00. Stuart B. Schwartz. Abstract. The tropical forest of Brazil has been a symbol of America s abundance, potential, and mystery ever since the Portuguese first landed there in 1500; but harvesting its potential has never been easy. The complex Get this from a library! Fruitless trees:Portuguese conservation and Brazil's colonial timber. [Shawn William Miller] - "For the most part, the forests of colonial Brazil were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation





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