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Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world /

Chapman, Peter.

Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world / Peter Chapman. - 1st American ed. - Edinburgh ; New York : [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Canongate ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007. - xv, 224 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Originally published as: Jungle capitalists 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.

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United Fruit Company--History.
United Fruit Company--Corrupt practices.


Banana trade--History.--Central America
Bananas--Social aspects.
International business enterprises--Corrupt practices.


Central America--History--1951-1979.

HD9259.B3 / U523 2007

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