Banana Wars : Power, Production, and History in the Americas /

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Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought b...

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Otros Autores: Bourgois, Philippe (Contribuidor), Bucheli, Marcelo (Contribuidor), Euraque, Darío A. (Contribuidor), Forster, Cindy (Contribuidor), Grossman, Lawrence S. (Contribuidor), Joseph, Gilbert M. (Editor ), Moberg, Mark (Contribuidor, Editor ), Rosenberg, Emily S. (Editor ), Saynolds, Laura T. (Contribuidor), Slocum, Karla (Contribuidor), Soluri, John (Contribuidor), Striffler, Steve (Contribuidor, Editor ), Wells, Allen (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2003]
Colección:American encounters/global interactions : 39
Temas:
Banana trade > History > Caribbean Area.
Banana trade > History > South America.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Global Fruit
  • The Global Banana Trade
  • Banana Cultures: Linking the Production and Consumption of Export Bananas, 1800-1980
  • United Fruit Company in Latin America
  • 2 Central and South America
  • One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters
  • Responsible Men and Sharp Yankees: The United Fruit Company, Resident Elites, and Colonial State in British Honduras
  • The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador
  • ''The Macondo of Guatemala'': Banana Workers and National Revolution in Tiquisate, 1944-1954
  • The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s
  • 3 The Caribbean
  • Discourses and Counterdiscourses on Globalization and the St. Lucian Banana Industry
  • The St. Vincent Banana Growers' Association, Contract Farming, and the Peasantry
  • Conclusions: Dialectical Bananas
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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