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Ecology

Social Lives of Forests Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence

Hecht Susanna B., Morrison Kathleen D., Padoch Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780226322681, ISBN: HB: 9780226322667, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 13 line drawings, 19 tables

Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face – including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation – are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past...

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Anthropology

Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha

Hecht Susanna B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226322810, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
632 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 2 tables, 53 halftones

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material – rubber – with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon, a decades-long conflict that found Britain, Fr...

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Ecology

Fate of the Forest Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (Updated Edition)

Hecht Susanna B., Cockburn Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780226322728, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
408 pp., 21.3x14 cm, 7 maps, 6 halftones

The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To under...

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