NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sawmill
15 Nov 2015
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Nats 1840 lecture 7 specialization of production: technology maximizes resource. Land scarcity, growing global trade, rapidly growing manufacturing industries. Large variety of resources: food (sugar, fish), non-food animal products (e. g. furs), minerals (e. g. gold and silver), plant materials (trees) Minimal processing (e. g. drying and salting fish), greater processing - as basis for manufacturing (e. g. iron for tools) Raw materials for manufacturing, production levels increased, dependence on natural resources, economic growth and competitiveness. Natural resources became fiscal tools for the state, taxation, investment, labor, etc. state to management of finances, maximize extraction of that resource. New world wilderness, inexhaustible resources, pressures on the environment. Technologies augment human actions, sawmills to process wood. Standing trees are called timber, sawn boards from those trees are called lumber. Historians of old world concerned with social and institutional issues, historians of new. World focus on environment, war with the wilderness . Agricultural land ( arable land) and tree clearance, areas of demand.
