||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| a good but slow read|By susanne ranseen|I purchased this book for a graduate class. It supported what I learned in the class very well. Tucker has a way with words though he can be long winded. He is clear on his biases which I find appealing in a historic writter. It does make you think about how our society came to this state and the toll we are still estracting from it.||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 o
Now in a concise edition created expressly for students and general readers, this widely hailed study traces the transformation of the tropics in modern times. Exploring the central role of the United States in the ongoing devastation of tropical lands, Richard P. Tucker shows how, in the late 1800s, American speculators first became participants in the centuries-long history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in...
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