- Published: Edinburgh ; New York : [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Canongate ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
- Year Published: 2007
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Description: xv, 224 p. : map ; 21 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
ISBN/Standard Number
- 9781841958811 :
- 1841958816 :
Subjects
- 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.
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Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world
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Additional Details
Originally published as: Jungle capitalists.
Map on lining papers.
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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