Steve Striffler / Mark Moberg
Banana Wars
Power, Production, and History in the Americas
Herausgeber: Striffler, Steve; Moberg, Mark
Steve Striffler / Mark Moberg
Banana Wars
Power, Production, and History in the Americas
Herausgeber: Striffler, Steve; Moberg, Mark
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The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture.
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The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture.
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- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2003
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 29mm
- Gewicht: 644g
- ISBN-13: 9780822331599
- ISBN-10: 0822331594
- Artikelnr.: 21412309
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2003
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 29mm
- Gewicht: 644g
- ISBN-13: 9780822331599
- ISBN-10: 0822331594
- Artikelnr.: 21412309
Steve Striffler is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Arkansas and the author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995 (Duke University Press), winner of the Labor Section of the Latin American Studies Association’s 2003 award for Best Book. Mark Moberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry and Citrus, Strategy, and Class: The Politics of Development in Southern Belize.
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
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
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
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