The business of empire : United Fruit, race, and U.S. expansion in Central America /

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The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Colby, Jason M. (Jason Michael), 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:United States in the world.
Subjects:
United Fruit Company > History.
United Fruit Company
Industrial relations > Central America > History.
Relations industrielles > Amérique centrale > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Commerce
Industrial relations
Diplomatic relations
Race relations
Central America > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Central America.
Central America > Commerce > United States > History.
United States > Commerce > Central America > History.
Central America > Race relations > History.
Amérique centrale > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Amérique centrale.
Amérique centrale > Commerce > États-Unis > Histoire.
Amérique centrale > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Central America
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Enterprise and expansion, 1848-1885
  • Joining the imperial world, 1885-1904
  • Corporate colonialism, 1904-1912
  • Divided workers, 1912-1921
  • The rise of Hispanic nationalism, 1921-1929
  • Reframing the empire, 1929-1940.

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