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Author Tucker, Richard P., 1938-

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
©2000
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 551 pages) : maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-524) and index.
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Tropical crops -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Tropical crops -- Economic aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Tropical crops.
Tropical crops -- Environmental aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Investments, American -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century.
Investments, American.
Tropics.
Environmental degradation -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century.
Environmental degradation.
Indexed Term Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tucker, Richard P., 1938- Insatiable appetite. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520220870 (DLC) 00037774 (OCoLC)43845581
ISBN 9780520923812 (electronic book)
0520923812 (electronic book)
0585390088 (electronic book)
9780585390086 (electronic book)
0520220870
9780520220874
1282356453
9781282356450

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