Insatiable appetite : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world / Richard P. Tucker.

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Tucker, Richard P, 1938-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520923812
0520923812
0585390088
9780585390086

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Insatiable appetite.DDC classification:

333.7/0913 21

LOC classification:

HD1417 .T83 2000eb

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Contents:

America's sweet tooth: the sugar trust and the Caribbean lowlands -- Lords of the Pacific: sugar barons in the Hawaiian and Philippine islands -- Banana republics: yankee fruit companies and the tropical American lowlands -- The last drop: the American coffee market and the hill regions of Latin America -- The tropical cost of the automotive age: corporate rubber empires and the rainforest -- The crop on hooves: yankee interests in tropical cattle ranching -- Unsustainable yield: American foresters and tropical timber resources.

Summary: This text presents a history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-524) and index.

This text presents a history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems.

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