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Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world / Peter Chapman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xv, 224 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781841958811
  • 1841958816
Other title:
  • Jungle capitalists
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7/634772098 22
  • 338.7 14
Contents:
From the memory of men -- Lament for a dying fruit -- Roots of empire -- Monopoly -- The banana man -- Taming the enclave -- Banana republics -- On the inside -- Coup -- 'Betrayal' -- Decline and fall -- Old and dark forces -- Epilogue: United fruit world.
Summary: Chronicles the rise and fall of United Fruit Company, documenting how the corporation blazed the trail of global capitalism and describing its devasting impact on Central America's "banana republics."
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 338.7/CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500066772

Reprint. Originally published: Jungle capitalists. 2007.

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.

From the memory of men -- Lament for a dying fruit -- Roots of empire -- Monopoly -- The banana man -- Taming the enclave -- Banana republics -- On the inside -- Coup -- 'Betrayal' -- Decline and fall -- Old and dark forces -- Epilogue: United fruit world.

Chronicles the rise and fall of United Fruit Company, documenting how the corporation blazed the trail of global capitalism and describing its devasting impact on Central America's "banana republics."

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