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

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Other Authors: Striffler, Steve, 1967-, Moberg, Mark, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2003.
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
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Table of Contents:
  • The global banana trade / Laura T. Raynolds
  • Banana cultures : linking the production and consumption of export bananas / John Soluri
  • United Fruit Company in Latin America / Marcelo Bucheli
  • One hundred years of United Fruit Company letters / Philippe Bourgois
  • The limits of state sovereignty : colonial administrators, elites and the United Fruit Company 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 counter-discourses on globalization and the St. Lucian banana industry / Karla Slocum
  • The St. Vincent Banana Growers' Association, contract farming, and the peasantry / Lawrence Grossman.