| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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American encounters/global interactions |
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American encounters/global interactions.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-360) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
United Fruit Company -- History
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| SUBJECT |
United Fruit Company fast |
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Banana trade -- South America -- History
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Banana trade -- Caribbean Area -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Banana trade
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Caribbean Area
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South America
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Striffler, Steve, 1967- editor.
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Moberg, Mark, 1959- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822385288 |
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0822385287 |
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1282921002 |
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9781282921009 |
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9786612921001 |
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6612921005 |
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