Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world
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1. Verfasser: Tucker, Richard P. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2000
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-524) and index
This text presents a history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. CROPLANDS -- 1. Americas Sweet Tooth: The Sugar Trust and the Caribbean Lowlands -- 2. Lords of the Pacific: Sugar Barons in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands -- 3. Banana Republics: Yankee Fruit Companies and the Tropical American Lowlands -- 4. The Last Drop: The American Coffee Market and the Hill Regions of Latin America -- 5. The Tropical Cost of the Automotive Age: Corporate Rubber Empires and the Rainforest -- PART TWO. PASTURELANDS -- 6. The Crop on Hooves: Yankee Interests in Tropical Cattle Ranching -- PART THREE. FORESTLANDS -- 7. Unsustainable Yield: American Foresters and Tropical Timber Resources -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Map 1. West Indies: Lesser Antilles -- Map 2. West Indies: Greater Antilles -- Map 3. Hawaii: The Eight Major Islands -- Map 4. Philippine Islands -- Map 5. Central America -- Map 6. Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela -- Map 7. Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina -- Map 8. Indonesia and Malaya -- Map 9. Liberia -- Map 10. Mexico -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 551 pages)
ISBN:9780520923812
0520923812
0585390088
9780585390086
0520220870
9780520220874
1282356453
9781282356450

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