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Bananas : an American history / Virginia Scott Jenkins.
LIBRA - Blank Collection HD9259.B3 U537 2000 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Virginia Scott.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banana trade--United States--History.
- Banana trade.
- Bananas--Social aspects--United States.
- Bananas.
- Bananas--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, [1], 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Introducing Bananas
- Politics and Bananas
- Transporting Bananas
- Selling Bananas
- Peril and Panacea
- Eating Bananas
- Celebrating Bananas
- Meaning of Bananas.
- Notes:
- Editor: Ruth W. Spiegel. Designer: Amber Frid-Jimenez.
- "Songs of Bananas" (pages 173-176).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 1560989661
- 9781560989660
- OCLC:
- 1020208091
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