Format:
viii, 364 p.
ISBN:
9780822385288
,
0822385287
Series Statement:
American encounters/global interactions
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Banana wars Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2003 ISBN 0822331969
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822331594
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
;
Bananenhandel
;
Bananenproduktion
;
Geschichte 1900-2002
;
USA
;
United Fruit Company
;
Bananenhandel
;
Lateinamerika
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1215/9780822385288
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822385288?locatt=mode:legacy
