The age of wood our most useful material and the construction of civilization
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. As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
2021.
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| Edition: | First Scribner trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
