Thomas Miller Klubock is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904–1951, and a coeditor of The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics, both also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments vii
Maps x
Introduction 1
1. Landed Property and State Sovereignty on the Frontier 29
2. Natural Disorder: Ecological Crisis, the State, and the Origins of Modern Forestry 58
3. Forest Commons and Peasant Protest on the Frontier, 1920s and 1930s 90
4. Changing Landscapes: Tree Plantations, Forestry, and State-Directed Development after 1930 118
5. Peasants, Forests, and the Politics of Social Reform on the Frontier, 1930s-1950s 145
6. Agrarian Reform and State-Directed Forestry Development, 1950s and 1960s 176
7. Agrarian Reform Arrives in the Forests 208
8. Dictatorship and Free-Market Forestry 239
9. Democracy, Environmentalism, and the Mapuche Challenge to Forestry Development 268
Conclusion 298
Notes 309
Bibliography 361
Index 373