Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world
Chronicles the rise and fall of United Fruit Company, documenting how the corporation blazed the trail of global capitalism and describing its devasting impact on Central America's "banana republics."
Print Book, English, ©2007
1st American ed View all formats and editions
Canongate ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, Edinburgh, New York, ©2007
History
xv, 224 pages : map ; 21 cm
9781841958811, 1841958816
286555641
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
Reprint. Originally published: Jungle capitalists. 2007
Map on lining papers