Striffler / Moberg / Joseph Banana Wars

Power, Production, and History in the Americas
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8528-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Striffler, Steve

Moberg, Mark

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.