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Insatiable Appetite : the United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 tropical crops were grown for carefully fostered consumer markets at home. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (566 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520923812 0520923812 1597346780 9781597346788 |