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The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos.
Utgivningsår: 2020.
Språk: Engelska
Medietyp: Bok
Upplaga: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Förlag: Scribner, in imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
ISBN: 978-1-9821-1473-2 1-9821-1473-8
Omfång: 318 sidor, 8 opaginerade plansch-sidor : illustrationer ; 24 cm
Innehållsbeskrivning
A scholarly and scientific examination of the unrecognized role of trees in the planet's ecosystem reveals wood's unexpected influence on human evolution, civilization, and the global economy.
Prologue: The road to nowhere -- Wood and human evolution. Our arboreal inheritance -- Coming down from the trees -- Losing our hair -- Tooling up -- Building civilization. Clearing the forest -- Melting and smelting -- Carving our communities -- Supplying life's luxuries -- Supporting our pretensions -- Limiting our outlook -- Wood in the industrial era. Replacing firewood and charcoal -- Wood in the nineteenth century -- Wood in the modern world -- Facing the consequences. Assessing our impact -- Mending our strained relationship.
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