La frontera : forests and ecological conflict in Chile's frontier territory / Thomas Miller Klubock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Landed property and State sovereignty on the frontier -- Natural disorder: ecological crisis, the State, and the origins of modern forestry -- Forest commons and peasant protest on the frontier, 1920s and 1930s -- Changing landscapes: tree plantations, forestry, and state-directed development after 1930 -- Peasants, forestry, and the politics of social reform on the frontier, 1930s-1950s -- Agrarian reform and state-directed forestry development, 1950s and 1960s -- Agrarian reform arrives in the forests -- Dictatorship and free-market forestry -- Democracy, environmentalism, and the mapuche challenge to forestry.