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Insatiable appetite : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world
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- Creator
- Richard P. Tucker
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 551 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520923812, 0520220870, 0520923812, 1282356453, 1597346780, 0585390088, 9781282356450, 9780520220874, 9786612356452, 9780585390086
- OCLC
- ocm43845581, ocm49570022, ocn475928531
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-524) and index.
- pt. 1. Croplands. 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 -- pt. 2. Pasturelands. The crop on hooves: Yankee interests in tropical cattle ranching. Unsustainable yield: American foresters and tropical imber resources