Wood

<p>Acknowledgements vii</p>
<p>Introduction: Praising Wood, Caring for Wood, Splitting Wood and a Historical Synthesis 1</p>
<p>Chapter 1 Paths into the Thicket of History 13</p>
<p>1 The Wood Age 14</p>
<p>2 Man and Forest: Stories and History 28</p>
<p>3 Wood and Historical Change 34</p>
<p>Chapter 2 Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Maximum Exploitation and the Beginnings of Sustainability 56</p>
<p>1 Medieval Society and the Limits of the Forest 57</p>
<p>2 Timber Becomes a Commodity 70</p>
<p>3 Large– Scale Firewood Consumption and the First Wave of Forest Ordinance 92</p>
<p>Chapter 3 From the Apogee of the Wood Age to the Industrial Revolution 135</p>
<p>1 Reform, Revolution and the Wood Economy 136</p>
<p>2 The Spectre of Shortage : Did the Timber Trade Face Catastrophe? 156</p>
<p>3 The Forest: From Living Space to Capital 172</p>
<p>4 Wood Consumers: Economies in the Home and Outside 205</p>
<p>5 Rollback 228</p>
<p>Chapter 4 Wood in the High Industrial Age: Degradation and Rebirth 239</p>
<p>1 The Forest as an Economic Factor 240</p>
<p>2 Technological Revolution in the Timber Industry 256</p>
<p>3 Fissile Material and Bonding Agent: Forest and Wood in the Eco– Age 276</p>
<p>Chapter 5 Global Prospects and Contrasts 294</p>
<p>1 Lessons from Asia 295</p>
<p>2 Conflicts and (Ostensible) Solutions 318</p>
<p>3 Looking Back to the Future: Six Spotlights on the History of Forest and Wood 324</p>
<p>Postscript: The Mystery of Certificates, or, Sustainable Forestry versus Greenwashing 327</p>
<p>Wood Talk 330</p>
<p>References and Bibliography 340</p>
<p>Index 376</p>