La frontera : forests and ecological conflict in Chile's frontier territory / Thomas Miller Klubock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klubock, Thomas Miller.

Series:

Radical perspectives.

Radical perspectives:

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Environmental aspects--Boundaries--Chile.

Forests and forestry.

Chile--Boundaries--Environmental conditions.

Chile.

Chile--Boundaries--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today's forestry ""miracle"" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows that forestry development began in the early twentieth century when Chilean governments turned to forestry science and plantations of the North American Monterey pine to establish their governance of the frontier's natural and social worlds. Klubock demonstrates that modern conservationist policies

Contents:

Landed property and State sovereignty on the frontier

Natural disorder: ecological crisis, the State, and the origins of modern forestry

Forest commons and peasant protest on the frontier, 1920s and 1930s

Changing landscapes: tree plantations, forestry, and state-directed development after 1930

Peasants, forestry, and the politics of social reform on the frontier, 1930s-1950s

Agrarian reform and state-directed forestry development, 1950s and 1960s

Agrarian reform arrives in the forests

Dictatorship and free-market forestry

Democracy, environmentalism, and the mapuche challenge to forestry.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822376569

0822376563

OCLC:

1139367328