No Wood, No Kingdom PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern Supporters regard it as a

Supporters regard it as a central coming-of-age ritual that ensures chastity and promotes fertility

including anti-Chinese racism and the Kennedy assassination

Presented here is some of their most trenchant and yet still evolving thinking

an ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties

Alexander-Floyd examines our conflicting ideas

No Wood, No Kingdom PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern Supporters regard it as aExplores 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