Richard P. Tucker

Gebundenes Buch

Insatiable Appetite

The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Richard P. Tucker is Professor of Asian and Environmental History at Oakland University, and Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan. He is coeditor of Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983), World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1987), and other books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1006g
• ISBN-13: 9780520220874
• ISBN-10: 0520220870
• Artikelnr.: 22449837