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No wood, no kingdom : political ecology in the English Atlantic / Keith Pluymers.

No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pluymers, Keith (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:Early modern Americas.
Subjects:
Forest policy > England > History > 16th century.
Forest policy > England > History > 17th century.
Political ecology > Great Britain > History.
Forests and forestry > Political aspects > England > History.
Forests and forestry > Political aspects > Ireland > History.
Forests and forestry > Political aspects > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Scarcity.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
British colonies.
Forest policy.
Forests and forestry > Political aspects.
Political ecology.
America.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
England.
Great Britain.
Ireland.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Scarcity, conflict, and regulation in England's Royal Forests
  • Creating scarcity in Ireland's woods
  • The political ecology of woods in Virginia
  • Conservation and commercialization in Bermuda
  • Deforestation and preservation in early Barbados
  • Toward an Atlantic or Imperial political ecology?

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