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Author Ennos, Roland, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2020.
©2020

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Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.
Subject Wood.
Trees.
Woodwork -- History.
Building, Wooden -- History.
Building, Wooden. (OCoLC)fst00840948
Trees. (OCoLC)fst01155984
Wood. (OCoLC)fst01179191
Woodwork. (OCoLC)fst01179877
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781982114732 (hardcover)
1982114738 (hardcover)

 
    
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