The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ennos, Roland, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wood.

Trees.

Woodwork--History.

Woodwork.

Building, Wooden--History.

Building, Wooden.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 WOOD AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

1. Our Arboreal Inheritance

2. Coming Down from the Trees

3. Losing Our Hair

4. Tooling Up

pt. 2 BUILDING CIVILIZATION

5. Clearing the Forest

6. Melting and Smelting

7. Carving Our Communities

8. Supplying Life's Luxuries

9. Supporting Our Pretensions

10. Limiting Our Outlook

pt. 3 WOOD IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA

11. Replacing Firewood and Charcoal

12. Wood in the Nineteenth Century

13. Wood in the Modern World

pt. 4 FACING THE CONSEQUENCES

14. Assessing Our Impact

15. Mending Our Strained Relationship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index.

ISBN:

9781982114732

1982114738

OCLC:

1222909798