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The age of wood, our most useful material and the construction of civilization, Roland Ennos

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The age of wood, our most useful material and the construction of civilization, Roland Ennos

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index

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photographsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The age of wood

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Roland Ennos

Sub title

our most useful material and the construction of civilization

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

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

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