viii, 364 p. : 24 cm

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 / 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

former call number: 2003 Striffler

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