The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization /
Ennos, Roland,
The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.
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.
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.
9781982114732 1982114738
Wood.
Trees.
Woodwork--History.
Building, Wooden--History.
TA419 / .E66 2020
620.1/209
The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.
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.
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.
9781982114732 1982114738
Wood.
Trees.
Woodwork--History.
Building, Wooden--History.
TA419 / .E66 2020
620.1/209