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Wood : a history / Joachim Radkau ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Lippincott Library HD9750.5 .R324 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Radkau, Joachim, 1943-
- Standardized Title:
- Holz. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Forests and forestry--Economic aspects.
- Forests and forestry.
- Trees--Utilization.
- Trees.
- Forest management.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction: praising wood, caring for wood, splitting wood - and a historical synthesis
- Paths into the thicket of history
- Middle Ages and early modern period: maximum
- From the apogee of the 'wood age' to the industrial revolution
- Wood in the high industrial age: degradation and rebirth
- Global prospects and contrasts.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Holz. München : Oekom Verlag, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780745646886
- 0745646883
- OCLC:
- 768338336
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