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Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America

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 | #1064851 in Books |  2012-09-17 |  2012-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x6.00 x1.50l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 424 pages

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||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| The Wood That Changed History|By Elaine Stattler|Looking at a piece of antique mahogany furniture, who could possibly conceive of the economic, social, and environmental story behind it? Yet, mahogany has a compelling history of international maritime trade, slavery, exploitation, and greed.

Author Jennifer L. Anderson tells us, in her meticulously researched book, a| |Anderson's evocative and stunning Mahogany reminds us of both the deep ties between humans and trees and the sharp consequences of allowing our passion for beauty to trump nature's capacity to sustain a species. (Peter C. Mancall, author of Fatal Jou

In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly displaced local furniture woods as the height of fashion. Over the next century, consumer demand for mahogany set in motion elaborate schemes to secure the trees and transform their rough-hewn logs into exquisite objects. But beneath the polished gleam of this furniture lies a...

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