Banana wars : power, production, and history in the Americas / edited by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Striffler, Steve, 1967-

Moberg, Mark, 1959-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

American encounters/global interactions.

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Fruit Company--History.

United Fruit Company.

Banana trade--South America--History.

Banana trade.

Banana trade--Caribbean Area--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.

ISBN:

9786612921001

9781282921009

1282921002

9780822385288

0822385287

OCLC:

850217834