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Banana wars : power, production, and history in the Americas
- Title
- Banana wars : power, production, and history in the Americas / edited by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
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- Description
- viii, 364 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- American encounters/global interactions
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 04-92
- ISBN
- 0822331594 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822331969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003008347
- OCLC
- 52070925
- Title
- Banana wars : power, production, and history in the Americas / edited by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Series
- American encounters/global interactions
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Striffler, Steve, 1967-Moberg, Mark, 1959-
- Research Call Number
- JBE 04-92