Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world
(2007)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
338.1/CHAPMAN,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2007]
©2007
©2007
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
xv, 224 pages : map ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781841958811, 1841958816
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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