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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: American encounters/global interactionsPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.Description: viii, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0822331594 (alk. paper)
  • 0822331969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.174772098 22
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.
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Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) IMT Shelves (Level 4) 338.174772098 B212 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022091
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.

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.

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