附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-524) and index.
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.
摘要: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.
