One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 A Global Fruit
6. The Global Banana Trade 23
7. Banana Cultures: Linking the Production and Consumption of Export Bananas, 1800–1980 48
8. United Fruit Company in Latin America 80
9. 2 Central and South America
10. One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters 103
11. Responsible Men and Sharp Yankees: The United Fruit Company, Resident Elites, and Colonial State in British Honduras 145
12. The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador 171
13. ‘‘The Macondo of Guatemala’’: Banana Workers and National Revolution in Tiquisate, 1944–1954 191
14. The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s 229
15. 3 The Caribbean
16. Discourses and Counterdiscourses on Globalization and the St. Lucian Banana Industry 252
17. The St. Vincent Banana Growers’ Association, Contract Farming, and the Peasantry 286
18. Conclusions: Dialectical Bananas 316
19. Bibliography 335
20. Contributors 361
21. Index 363