| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Yale Agrarian Studies |
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Contents |
Risk, transparency and trust -- Red, white and bruised -- Times change -- Why bananas and why Chiquita? -- Strange bedfellows -- Grass-roots snapshots -- Blue bananas -- Agricultural antagonists -- "Daylight come ..." -- The many faces of corporate responsibility -- Leveling the label field -- Unfinished business -- Appendixes: -- Fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization -- Chemicals banned under the Better Banana Program -- Selected tables for Chiquita's 2001 Corporate Responsibility Report -- Sustainable Agriculture Network Members as of 2003 |
| Summary |
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This was a sudden transformation, says Dror Wahrman, and nothing short of a revolution in the understanding of selfhood and of identity categories including race, gender, and class. In this pathbreaking book, he offers a fundamentally new interpretation of this critical turning point in Western history. Wahrman demonstrates this transformation with a fascinating variety of cultural evidence from eighteenth-century England, from theatre to beekeeping, fashion to philosophy, art to travel and translations of the classics. He discusses notions of self in the earlier 1700s - what he terms the 'ancien regime of identity' - that seem bizarre, even incomprehensible, to present-day readers. He then examines how this peculiar world came to an abrupt end, and the far-reaching consequences of that change. This unrecognised cultural revolution, the author argues, set the scene for the array of new departures that signaled the onset of Western modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chiquita Brands International.
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Rainforest Alliance.
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| SUBJECT |
Chiquita Brands International fast |
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Rainforest Alliance fast |
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Chiquita Brands International gnd |
| Subject |
Banana trade -- Environmental aspects
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Banana trade -- Environmental aspects
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Umweltschutz
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Umweltschützer
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Bürgerbeteiligung
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Multinationales Unternehmen
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scharlin, Patricia J.
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| ISBN |
9780300128079 |
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030012807X |
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1281729973 |
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9781281729972 |
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