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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

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