Banana Wars : Power, Production, and History in the Americas

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Global Fruit -- The Global Banana Trade -- Banana Cultures: Linking the Production and Consumption of Export Bananas, 1800–1980 -- United Fruit Company in Latin America -- 2 Central and South America -- One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters -- Responsible Men and Sharp Yankees: The United Fruit Company, Resident Elites, and Colonial State in British Honduras -- The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador -- ‘‘The Macondo of Guatemala’’: Banana Workers and National Revolution in Tiquisate, 1944–1954 -- The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s -- 3 The Caribbean -- Discourses and Counterdiscourses on Globalization and the St. Lucian Banana Industry -- The St. Vincent Banana Growers’ Association, Contract Farming, and the Peasantry -- Conclusions: Dialectical Bananas -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index