{"product_id":"banana-wars-power-production-and-history-in-the-americas-paperback","title":"Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Striffler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMark Moberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. \u003ci\u003eBanana Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe. The first book to examine these processes in all the western hemisphere regions where bananas are grown for sale abroad, \u003ci\u003eBanana Wars\u003c\/i\u003e advances the growing body of scholarship focusing on export commodities from historical and social scientific perspectives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together the work of anthropologists, sociologists, economists, historians, and geographers, this collection reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages and, in so doing, created unprecedented potential for conflict throughout Latin American and the Caribbean. The frequently abusive conditions that banana workers experienced, the contributors point out, gave rise to one of Latin America's earliest and most militant labor movements. Responding to both the demands of workers' organizations and the power of U.S. capital, Latin American governments were inevitably affected by banana production. \u003ci\u003eBanana Wars \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how these governments sometimes asserted their sovereignty over foreign fruit companies, but more often became their willing accomplices. With several essays focusing on the operations of the extraordinarily powerful United Fruit Company, the collection also examines the strategies and reactions of the American and European corporations seeking to profit from the sale of bananas grown by people of different cultures working in varied agricultural and economic environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003ePhilippe Bourgois\u003cbr\u003eMarcelo Bucheli\u003cbr\u003eDario Euraque\u003cbr\u003eCindy Forster\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Grossman\u003cbr\u003eMark Moberg\u003cbr\u003eLaura T. Raynolds\u003cbr\u003eKarla Slocum\u003cbr\u003eJohn Soluri\u003cbr\u003eSteve Striffler\u003cbr\u003eAllen Wells\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative, stimulating collection brings together the best of the new work on the social, political, and cultural impact of banana exports in the Caribbean and Central and South America. The essays provide insight into the evolution of trade regimes, popular forms of contention, and the banana in the American imagination from the early twentieth century to the present. They signal new paths for comparative work on tropical commodities, corporate strategies, the interaction of multinational companies with local governments, labor movements, contract farming, growers associations, race, immigration, nationalism, dependency, globalization, and economic development.--Catherine LeGrand, McGill University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Striffler is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Arkansas and the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 \u003c\/i\u003e(Duke University Press), winner of the Labor Section of the Latin American Studies Association's 2003 award for Best Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Moberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMyths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCitrus, Strategy, and Class: The Politics of Development in Southern Belize.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.98 x 6.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338382307602,"sku":"9780822331964","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/eVdjcFpydFRsd0V5UCs1ZVdsN0Iwdz09.webp?v=1780473179","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/banana-wars-power-production-and-history-in-the-americas-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}