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No Wood, No Kingdom PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern President Obama and environmentalist coalitionsExplores the efforts to knot together woods around the Atlantic basin as resources for an English empire In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions, and pamphlets, in which they debated the severity of the problem, speculated on its origins, and proposed solutions to it. No Wood, No Kingdom explores these conflicting attempts to understand the