Banana Wars,9780822331964

Banana Wars

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ISBN13: 9780822331964
ISBN10: 0822331969
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

"This innovative, stimulating collection brings together the best of the new work on the social, political, and cultural impact of banana exports in the Caribbean and Central and South America. The essays provide insight into the evolution of trade regimes, popular forms of contention, and the banana in the American imagination from the early twentieth century to the present. They signal new paths for comparative work on tropical commodities, corporate strategies, the interaction of multinational companies with local governments, labor movements, contract farming, growers associations, race, immigration, nationalism, dependency, globalization, and economic development."--Catherine LeGrand, McGill University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction,
MARK MOBERG AND STEVE STRIFFLER
1(22)
1 A Global Fruit
The Global Banana Trade,
LAURA T. RAYNOLDS
23(25)
Banana Cultures: Linking the Production and Consumption of Export Bananas, 1800-1980,
JOHN SOLURT
48(32)
United Fruit Company in Latin America,
MARCELO BUCHELI
80(23)
2 Central and South America
One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters,
PHILIPPE BOURGOIS
103(42)
Responsible Men and Sharp Yankees: The United Fruit Company, Resident Elites, and Colonial State in British Honduras,
MARK MOBERG
145(26)
The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador,
STEVE STRIFFLER
171(20)
"The Macondo of Guatemala": Banana Workers and National Revolutions in Tiquisate, 1944-1954,
CINDY FORSTER
191(38)
The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920's and 1930's,
DARIO A. EURAQUE
229(24)
3 The Caribbean
Discourses and Counterdiscourses on Globalization and the St. Lucian Banana Industry,
KARLA SLOCUM
253(33)
The St. Vincent Banana Growers' Association, Contract Farming, and the Peasantry,
LAWRENCE S. GROSSMAN
286
Conclusions: Dialectical Bananas,
ALLEN WELLS
316(19)
Bibliography 335(26)
Contributors 361(2)
Index 363

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