Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Global Fruit -- The Global Banana Trade -- Banana …, 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 …

-- PART ONE The World of Plantations -- Introduction to Part One -- 2 The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador -- 3 The Birth of an … the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic …—the banana industry and, in particular, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita). He argues that, even within this highly stratified …