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 tropical crops were grown for carefully fostered consumer markets at home. As corporate agro-industry emerged, the speculators took direct control of the ecological...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520220870
ISBN13:9780520220874
Release Date:November 2000
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:564 Pages
Weight:2.36 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"
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