Author : Shawn William Miller
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804733960
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (339 download)
Book Synopsis Fruitless Trees by : Shawn William Miller
Download or read book Fruitless Trees written by Shawn William Miller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By and large, Brazil's forests were not simply harvested by the Portugese colonists, but rather 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 as a result of Portuguese colonial policies.