No theoretical underpinnings, no argument, just an endless stream of arcane quantitative facts and summaries barely stitched into a narrative, and certainly not one worth reading
- 217 – Chapter 6 title: “North American Capital and Sugar’s Final Assault on the Forest, 1898–1926”
- 4 – also uses terms “offensive” and “conquest”
- Whole narrative presented as inexorable transition to ever more exploitative use of land and destruction of forest