1. STUART MCCOOK is assistant professor of history at The College of New Jersey. He is currently finishing a book about the history of agricultural science in tropical Latin America to be published by the University of Texas Press.
2. 1 On agriculture and the model export-led development in Latin America, see Victor Bulmer-Thomas, The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 19-82; Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells, eds., The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998). On science, environment, and agriculture during the export boom, see Warren Dean, "The Green Wave of Coffee: Beginnings of Tropical Agricultural Research in Brazil
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4. 1885-1900)" Hispanic American Historical Review 69 (1989): 91-115; Warren Dean. Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987); and John Soluri, "Landscape and Livelihood: An Agroecological History of Export Banana Growing in Honduras, 1870-1975," (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1998).
5. 2 On technocracy see