A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood – the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptabil
A “smart and surprising” (Booklist) “expansive history” (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem�
From the earliest settlements until the mid 19th century, Americans used wood, their most abundant national resource, as building material, fuel, and as a raw m
A collection of ten essays examine the influence of wood technology upon development of America's material environment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centurie