Insatiable appetite : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world /
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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnxtd |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.