| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Um Sopro de Destruição: Pensamento Político e Crítica Ambiental No Brasil Escravista, 1786–1888 [A Destructive Wind: Political Thought and Environmental Criticism in Slave Brazil, 1786–1888]. By José Augusto Pádua. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2002. 318 pp. Bibliography. Paper $24.00.
One of the greatest Brazilian historians, Sérgio B. Holanda, distinguishes between the attitude of the "conquerors" of North America—whose actions were intended to transform the territory rationally—and Portuguese colonization, which coveted the immediate enjoyment of the natural riches. Such an attitude of "harvesting without planting" was responsible for uncontrollable devastation, along successive "Eldorados": those of mining, sugar, tobacco, and coffee.	1
Within the panorama of this sad legacy common to various other Latin-American countries, saving the history of other types of practices related to the natural environment from oblivion becomes valuable. Such a task has been undertaken by José Augusto Pádua. Starting from the research of political texts written between 1786 and 1888, the author selected about fifty thinkers dedicated to reflecting on the natural world and the destiny of Brazil.	. . .

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