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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., 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
Temas:
1900-1999
Tropical crops > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Tropical crops > Environmental aspects > History > 20th century.
Investments, American > Tropics > History > 20th century.
Environmental degradation > Tropics > History > 20th century.
Cultures tropicales > Aspect économique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cultures tropicales > Aspect de l'environnement > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Environnement > Dégradation > Régions tropicales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Environmental degradation
Investments, American
Tropical crops > Economic aspects
Tropics
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.
History
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505 0 |a Preliminaries; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. America's Sweet Tooth; 2. Lords of the Pacifc; 3. Banana Republics; 4. The Last Drop; 5. The Tropical Cost of the Automotive Age; 6. The Crop on Hooves; 7. Unsustainable Yield; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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