Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world

pt. 1. Croplands. 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

pt. 2. Pasturelands. The crop on hooves: Yankee interests in tropical cattle ranching. Unsustainable yield: American foresters and tropical timber resources.