Insatiable appetite the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world
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
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America's sweet tooth: the sugar trust and the Caribbean lowlands
Lords of the Pacific: sugar barons in the Hawaiian and Philippine islands
Banana republics: yankee fruit companies and the tropical American lowlands
The last drop: the American coffee market and the hill regions of Latin America
The tropical cost of the automotive age: corporate rubber empires and the rainforest
The crop on hooves: yankee interests in tropical cattle ranching
Unsustainable yield: American foresters and tropical timber resources