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With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Author: Warren Dean

Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants.
Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s--through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing devastation wrought by such developments as gold and diamond mining, slash-and-burn farming, coffee planting, and industrialization; and the desperate battles between conservationists and developers in the late twentieth century.
Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book. More than a history of a tropical forest, or of the relationship between forest and humans, it is also a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective. Dean writes passionately and movingly, in the fierce hope that the story of the Atlantic Forest will serve as a warning of the terrible costs of destroying its great neighbor to the west, the Amazon Forest.

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A history of human occupation in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, located in the country's most densely populated region, from an environmental perspective, detailing the devastation wrought to the region by mining, slash and burn farming, coffee, and industrialization, and the battles between conservationists and developers in the late 20th century. Discusses the evolution of technologies used to exploit the forest, and the role of social and cultural forces. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of Maps
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	The Forest Evolves	1
2	Humans Invade: The First Wave	20
3	Humans Invade: The Second Wave	41
4	Estrangement: Depopulation and the Regrown Forest	66
5	Gold and Diamonds, Ants and Cattle	91
6	Science Discovers the Forest	117
7	The Forest Under Brazilian Rule	144
8	Coffee Dispossesses the Forest	168
9	Instruments of Devastation	191
10	Speculation and Conservation	213
11	Industrial Nomadism, Predatory Industrialism	239
12	The Development Imperative	265
13	Unsustainable Developments	292
14	Getting It Off the Paper	319
15	The Value of Bare Ground	348
	Notes	365
	Pronouncing Glossary	441
	Index	445

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