The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2020Copyright date: Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- TA419 .E66 2020
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.
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.