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Insatiable Appetite de Richard P. Tucker

Insatiable Appetite

Autor Richard P. Tucker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 2000
In the late 1800s, American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. This book presents the history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780520220874
ISBN-10: 0520220870
Pagini: 564
Dimensiuni: 164 x 237 x 41 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of California Press

Cuprins

Introduction: America's Global Environmental Reach
Chapter 1: America's Sweet Tooth: Cane Sugar Transforms Tropical Lowlands
Chapter 2: Banana Republics: Yankee Fruit Companies and the Tropical American Lowlands
Chapter 3: The Last Drop: The American Coffee Market and the Hill Regions of South America
Chapter 4: The Tropical Cost of the Automotive Age: Corporate Rubber Empires and the Rainforest
Chapter 5: The Crop on Hooves: American Cattle Ranching in Latin America
Chapter 6: Unsustainable Yield: American Loggers and Foresters in the Tropics
Conclusion: Consuming Appetites

Recenzii

This insightful work condenses and updates the original 2000 edition. Tucker explores the ecological destruction of tropical environments by US capitalists and corporations. . . . The author largely attributes tropical degradation to the insatiable appetite of the American consumer. Recommended.
Richard Tucker has drawn on a lifetime of scholarship to produce a critical account of the ways American companies and consumers have contributed to the environmental degradation of tropical countries. Anyone interested in the American impact on the third world will benefit from the insights and information in this wide-ranging and remarkable study. The abridged paperback will find a place in a variety of classes, bringing this important story to a broader audience.
This investigation creates space for big history, using consumption to bring economy and environment together.
A comprehensive history of American roles in tropical agriculture and forestry . . . ranging from business and environmental history to anthropology, political science, and ecology.
I, and many other environmental scientists, will find it an invaluable source. . . . Too few [Americans] realize the enormous impacts citizens of the USA have because of their consumption of mundane items ranging from bananas and coffee to hamburgers, magazines and trophy homes. Richard Tucker's monumental book could help cure that ignorance.
[A] well-researched, thorough exploration of the US's role in resource exploitation in the tropics. . . . The book is important as more than a historical work because the driving forces behind large-scale corporate agricultural production and timber exploitation remain at work today. Highly recommended.
[The] subject is one that diplomatic historians have not even considered, and [Tucker] is far more international than . . . most environmental historians.
This well-written book presents a critical and much-needed new insight into an important problem.
This is a fascinating book. Tucker draws together an amazing amount of material to demonstrate how the United States, through exploitation, consumption, and demand over the past several centuries, has had a major impact on the ecology of tropical landscapes. It is a sobering, much-needed, wake-up call to those who view the tropics as an endless cornucopia of resources.