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Banana cowboys : the United Fruit Company and the culture of corporate colonialism

Summary: This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.

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  • ISBN: 9780826359421
  • ISBN: 0826359434
  • ISBN: 9780826359438
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 252 pages)
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  • Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: ways of living, ways of knowing -- From scramblers for fruit to banana empire, 1870-1930 -- Tropical vexations -- Corporate welfarism meets the tropics -- Wandering foci of infection -- Becoming banana cowboys -- Serving science on the side -- Conclusion.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2018).
Subject: United Fruit Company.
United Fruit Company
Banana trade -- Political aspects -- Latin America
Banana trade -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area
Corporations -- Political aspects -- United States
Imperialism -- Economic aspects
United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America
Banane -- Commerce -- Aspect politique -- Amérique latine
Banane -- Commerce -- Aspect politique -- Caraïbes (Région)
Sociétés -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis
Impérialisme -- Aspect économique
États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- Amérique latine
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General
Corporations -- Political aspects
Diplomatic relations
Imperialism -- Economic aspects
Caribbean Area
Latin America
United States
Genre: electronic book > ebook

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