The age of Wood : : our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
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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.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781982114732
1982114738
SUBJECTS
Wood.
Trees.
Woodwork -- History.
Building, Wooden -- History.