Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world / Peter Chapman.
Publication details: Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xv, 224 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN:- 1841958816
- HD9259.B3 U523 2007
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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.