Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World by Richard P. Tucker

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

Richard P. Tucker

564 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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 specula...

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