Tropical Forests in Human Prehistory, History, and Modernity

by Patrick Roberts and Patrick Roberts

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198818491
• ISBN13: 9780198818496
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"