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The banana : empires, trade wars, and globalization / James Wiley.
Lippincott Library HD9259.B2 W52 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiley, James.
- Series:
- At table series
- At table
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banana trade.
- Banana trade--Latin America.
- Banana trade--Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean Area.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The creation of the banana empire, 1900-1930
- The empire challenged, 1930-74
- The end of splendid isolation, 1974-93
- Peasant farmer societies : commonwealth Caribbean bananas
- Belize, Suriname, and the French West Indies : on the margins of the Caribbean
- The single European market and the Western Hemisphere's Banana industries
- Neocolonialism encounters the free trade imperative
- The World Trade Organization and the banana trade
- The U.S.-EU banana war heats up
- Pursuit of an elusive goal
- Implications for the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803215771
- 0803215770
- OCLC:
- 174134194
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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