TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tucker,Richard P.
TI  - Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world 
T2  - Exploring world history
SN  - 0742553655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HD1417 .T83 2007
U1  - 333.70913 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Tropical crops
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Investments, American
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Environmental degradation
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006101556.html
ER  -