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Author Soluri, John.

Title Banana cultures : agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States / John Soluri
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Linking places of production and consumption -- Going bananas -- Space invaders -- Altered landscapes and transformed livelihoods -- Sigatoka, science, and control -- Revisiting the green prison -- The lives and time of Miss Chiquita -- La Química -- Banana cultures in comparative perspective
Summary Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores-everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively, interdisciplinary study, John Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States. Beginning in the 1870s when bananas first appeared in the U.S. marketplace, Soluri examines the tensions between the small-scale growers, who dominated the trade in the early years, and the shippers. He then shows how rising demand led to changes in production that resulted in the formation of major agribusinesses, spawned international migrations, and transformed great swaths of the Honduran environment into monocultures susceptible to plant disease epidemics that in turn changed Central American livelihoods. Soluri also looks at labor practices and workers' lives, changing gender roles on the banana plantations, the effects of pesticides on the Honduran environment and people, and the mass marketing of bananas to consumers in the United States. His multifaceted account of a century of banana production and consumption adds an important chapter to the history of Honduras, as well as to the larger history of globalization and its effects on rural peoples, local economies, and biodiversity. [from publisher description]
Analysis Environmental Policy
Milieubeleid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on March 7, 2023)
Subject Banana trade -- Honduras
Banana trade -- Social aspects -- Honduras
Banana trade -- Environmental aspects -- Honduras
Banana trade -- United States
Banana trade -- Social aspects -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
Banana trade
Banana trade -- Environmental aspects
Bananenhandel
Umwelt
Gesellschaft
Entwicklung
Banane.
Bananenplantage.
Handel.
Sozioökonomischer Wandel.
Umweltveränderung.
agro-alimentation -- banane -- consommation de masse -- environnement -- industrie -- Etats-Unis -- Honduras -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s.
Honduras
United States
Honduras
Honduras.
USA.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005015808
ISBN 9780292796836
0292796838