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Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas
 
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ISBN13:9780822331599
ISBN10:0822331594
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:360 pages
Size:250x150x15 mm
Weight:635 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 8 illustrations, 16 tables, 11 figures
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Banana Wars

Power, Production, and History in the Americas
 
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
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Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
 
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Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe. The first book to examine these processes in all the western hemisphere regions where bananas are grown for sale abroad, Banana Wars advances the growing body of scholarship focusing on export commodities from historical and social scientific perspectives.

Bringing together the work of anthropologists, sociologists, economists, historians, and geographers, this collection reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages and, in so doing, created unprecedented potential for conflict throughout Latin American and the Caribbean. The frequently abusive conditions that banana workers experienced, the contributors point out, gave rise to one of Latin America’s earliest and most militant labor movements. Responding to both the demands of workers’ organizations and the power of U.S. capital, Latin American governments were inevitably affected by banana production. Banana Wars explores how these governments sometimes asserted their sovereignty over foreign fruit companies, but more often became their willing accomplices. With several essays focusing on the operations of the extraordinarily powerful United Fruit Company, the collection also examines the strategies and reactions of the American and European corporations seeking to profit from the sale of bananas grown by people of different cultures working in varied agricultural and economic environments.

Contributors
Philippe Bourgois
Marcelo Bucheli
Dario Euraque
Cindy Forster
Lawrence Grossman
Mark Moberg
Laura T. Raynolds
Karla Slocum
John Soluri
Steve Striffler
Allen Wells



“As the first tropical fruit to fit into both a middle-class U.S. breakfast and a workingman’s lunchbox, bananas—yellow, soft, and innocent—were a slightly comical, faintly suspect, always welcome by-product of the Yankee imperial reach. These essays illuminate some of the geopolitical, environmental, and human costs of the banana’s enormous everyday popularity.”—Sidney Mintz, author of Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Mark Moberg and Steve Striffler 1

1. A Global Fruit

The Global Banana Trade / Laura T. Raynolds 23

Banana Cultures: Linking the Production and Consumption of Export Bananas, 1800–1980 / John Soluri 48

United Fruit Company in Latin America / Marcelo Bucheli 80

2. Central and South America

One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters / Philippe Bourgois 103

Responsible Men and Sharp Yankees: The United Fruit Company, Resident Elites, and Colonial State in British Honduras / Mark Moberg 145

The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador / Steve Striffler 171

"The Macondo of Guatemala": Banana Workers and National Revolutions in Tiquisate, 1944–1954 / Cindy Forster 191

The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s / Darío A. Euraque 229

3. The Caribbean

Discourses and Counterdiscourses on Globalization and the St. Lucian Banana Industry / Karla Slocum 253

The St. Vincent Banana Growers' Association, Contract Farming, and the Peasantry / Lawrence S. Grossman 286

Conclusions: Dialectical Bananas / Allen Wells 316

Bibliography 335

Contributors 361

Index 363