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"This is a fascinating book. Tucker draws together an amazing amount of material to demonstrate how the U.S., through exploitation, consumption, and demand over the past several centuries, has had a major impact on the ecology of tropical landscapes. It is a sobering, much-needed wake-up call to those who view the tropics as an endless cornucopia of resources." --Charles M. Peters, The New York Botanical Garden
"This well-written book presents a critical and much-needed new insight into an important problem." --Otto T. Solbrig, Bussey Professor of Biology, Harvard University
Review Quotes: "This carefully researched book traces the history of the transformation of the tropics over the last 200 years, and the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems. . . . There is much to be studied and thought about in this detailed and superbly researched book."--"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology