Insatiable Appetite : The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World /

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In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tucker, Richard P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2000]
Temas:
Environmental degradation > History > 20th century > Tropics.
Environmental degradation > Tropics > History > 20th century.
Investments, American > History > 20th century > Tropics.
Investments, American > Tropics > History > 20th century.
Tropical crops > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Tropical crops > Environmental aspects > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / General.
agriculture.
american history.
bananas.
beef.
biodiversity.
caribbean.
central america.
civilization.
coffee.
commerce.
commodities.
conservation.
cultivation.
ecology.
environment.
environmental history.
environmental impact.
environmentalism.
forest.
free trade.
land speculation.
latin american history.
monocrops.
nonfiction.
pacific.
plantations.
rubber.
south america.
southeast asia.
sugar.
timber.
trade.
transnational history.
tropical crops.
tropical lands.
tropical ports.
tropics.
west africa.
white mans burden.
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