Banana cowboys : the United Fruit Company and the culture of corporate colonialism / James W. Martin.

By:

Martin, James W, 1972- [Author]

Material type: Text

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computer

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online resource

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9780826359438

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HD9259 .B363 2018

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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