Fruitless Trees
Author: Shawn William Miller
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780804733960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By and large, Brazil's forests were not simply harvested by the Portugese colonists, but rather annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber as a result of Portuguese colonial policies.