Banana cultures : agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States / John Soluri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soluri, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banana trade--Honduras.

Banana trade.

Banana trade--Social aspects--Honduras.

Banana trade--Environmental aspects--Honduras.

Banana trade--United States.

Banana trade--Social aspects--United States.

Banana trade--Environmental aspects.

Social aspects.

Honduras.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 344 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores--everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively, interdisciplinary study, John Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States. This new paperback edition features a new preface to the second edition, a new postscript, an updated bibliography, and an updated index"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Going Bananas

ch. 2 Space Invaders

ch. 3 Altered Landscapes and Transformed Livelihoods

ch. 4 Sigatoka, Science, and Control

ch. 5 Revisiting the Green Prison

ch. 6 The Lives and Time of Miss Chiquita

ch. 7 La Quimica

ch. 8 Banana Cultures in Comparative Perspective.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477322802

1477322809

OCLC:

1202729997