La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory

by Thomas Miller Klubock

Book Overview

In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today's forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows that forestry development began in the early twentieth century when Chilean governments turned to forestry science and plantations of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822355981
• ISBN13: 9780822355984
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"