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Banana wars : power, production, and history in the Americas /

The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Striffler, Steve, 1967- (Editor ), Moberg, Mark, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Colección:American encounters/global interactions.
E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The global banana trade / Laura T. Raynolds
  • Banana cultures : linking the production and consumption of export bananas, 1800-1980 / John Soluri
  • United Fruit Company in Latin America / Marcelo Bucheli
  • One hundred years of United Fruit Company letters / Philippe Bourgois
  • Responsible men and sharp yankees : the United Fruit Company, resident elites, and colonial state in British Honduras / Mark Moberg
  • The logic of the enclave : United Fruit, popular struggle, and capitalist transformation in Ecuador / Steve Striffler
  • "The Macondo of Guatemala" : banana workers and national revolutions in Tiquisate, 1944-1954 / Cindy Forster
  • The threat of blackness to the mestizo nation : race and ethnicity in the Honduran banana economy, 1920s and 1930s / Dario Euraque
  • Discourses and counterdiscourses on globalization and the St. Lucian banana industry / Karla Slocum
  • The St. Vincent Banana Growers' Association, contract farming, and the peasantry / Lawrence Grossman.