Insatiable appetite : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world / Richard P. Tucker.
Series: Exploring world historyPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Concise revised editionDescription: ix, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0742553655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780742553651 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 333.70913 22
- HD1417 .T83 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: America's global environmental reach -- America's sweet tooth: cane sugar transforms tropical lowlands -- Banana republics: Yankee fruit companies and the tropical American lowlands -- The last drop: the American coffee market and the hill regions of South America -- The tropical cost of the automotive age: corporate rubber empires and the rainforest -- The crop on hooves: American cattle ranching in Latin America -- Unsustainable yield: American loggers and foresters in the tropics -- Conclusions: consuming appetites.
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