Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world / Peter Chapman.
2007
HD9259.B3 U523 2007b (Mapit)
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Title
Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world / Peter Chapman.
Author
Uniform Title
Jungle capitalists
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9781841958811
1841958816
1841958816
Publication Details
Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
Language
English
Description
xv, 224 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Call Number
HD9259.B3 U523 2007b
Note
Originally published as: Jungle capitalists.
Map on lining papers.
Map on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.