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Banana Cowboys : The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism /

This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, James W., 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: ways of living, ways of knowing
  • From scramblers for fruit to banana empire, 1870-1930
  • Tropical vexations
  • Corporate welfarism meets the tropics
  • Wandering foci of infection
  • Becoming banana cowboys
  • Serving science on the side
  • Conclusion.