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Author : Dr. Richard Edgar Zwez
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781794846937
The author's family life as a youth in Honduras where his father worked for the United Fruit Company.
Author : Charles David Kepner,Jay Henry Soothill
Publisher : New York : Russell & Russell
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033781506
Author : James Wiley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780803216372
The Banana demystifies the banana trade and its path toward globalization. It reviews interregional relationships in the industry and the changing institutional framework governing global trade and assesses the roles of such major players as the European Union and the World Trade Organization. It also analyzes the forces driving today's economy, such as the competitiveness imperative, diversification processes, and niche market strategies. Its final chapter suggests how the outcome of the recent banana war will affect bananas and trade in other commodities sectors as well.
Author : Lester D. Langley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0842050477
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction, placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the perspective of the Americans involved, the empire carved out by the banana warriors was a domain of bickering Latin American politicians, warring tropical countries, and lawless societies that the American military had been dispatched to police and tutor. Beginning with the Cuban experience, Langley examines the motives and consequences of two military occupations and the impact of those interventions on a professedly antimilitaristic American government and on its colonial agents in the Caribbean, the American military. The result of the Cuban experience, Langley argues, was reinforcement of the view that the American people did not readily accept prolonged military occupation of Caribbean countries. In Nicaragua and Mexico, from 1909 to 1915, where economic and diplomatic pressures failed to bring the results desired in Washington, the American military became the political arbiters; in Hispaniola, bluejackets and marines took on the task of civilizing the tropics. In the late 1920s, with an imperial force largely of marines, the American military waged its last banana war in Nicaragua against a guerrilla leader named Augusto C. Sandino. Langley not only narrates the history of America's tropical empire, but fleshes out the personalities of this imperial era, including Leonard Wood and Fred Funston, U.S. Army, who left their mark on Cuba and Vera Cruz; William F. Fullam and William Banks Caperton, U.S. Navy, who carried out their missions imbued with old-school beliefs about their role as policemen in disorderly places; Smedley Butler and L.W.T. Waller, Sr., U.S.M.C., who left the most lasting imprint of A
Author : Richard E. Zwez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1716909015
The author's family life as a youth in Honduras where his father worked for the United Fruit Company.
Author : Peter Chapman
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781838859763
In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.
Author : Charles David Kepner,Jay Henry Soothill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760536662
Author : Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0822320991
Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.
Author : Jason M. Colby
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801462726
The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930s, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire.
Author : Rich Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429946292
Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. Zemurray lived one of the great untold stories of the last hundred years. Starting with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas, he built a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen. From hustling on the docks of New Orleans to overthrowing Central American governments and precipitating the bloody thirty-six-year Guatemalan civil war, the Banana Man lived a monumental and sometimes dastardly life. Rich Cohen's brilliant historical profile The Fish That Ate the Whale unveils Zemurray as a hidden power broker, driven by an indomitable will to succeed.
Author : James W. Martin
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826359438
The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century—the white “banana cowboy” pushing the edges of a tropical frontier—was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. 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.
Author : Shana Klein
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520296398
The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This excitement for fruit manifested in an explosion of fruit imagery within still life paintings, prints, trade cards, and more. Images of fruit labor and consumption by immigrants and people of color also gained visibility, merging alongside the efforts of expansionists to assimilate land and, in some cases, people into the national body. Divided into five chapters on visual images of the grape, orange, watermelon, banana, and pineapple, this book demonstrates how representations of fruit struck the nerve of the nation’s most heated debates over land, race, and citizenship in the age of high imperialism.
Author : Charles Morrow Wilson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:32000002989392
Author : Lester D. Langley,Thomas Schoonover
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813145983
“An engaging and fascinating narrative of the entrepreneurs and mercenaries who ‘ravished’ Central America between 1880 and 1930.” —The Americas Ambitious entrepreneurs, isthmian politicians, and mercenaries who dramatically altered Central America’s political culture, economies, and even its traditional social values populate this lively story of a generation of North and Central Americans and their roles in the transformation of Central America from the late nineteenth century until the onset of the Depression. The Banana Men is a study of modernization, its benefits, and its often frightful costs. The colorful characters in this study are fascinating, if not always admirable. Sam “the Banana Man” Zemurray, a Bessarabian Jewish immigrant, made a fortune in Honduran bananas after he got into the business of “revolutin,” and his exploits are now legendary. His hired mercenary Lee Christmas, a bellicose Mississippian, made a reputation in Honduras as a man who could use a weapon. The supporting cast includes Minor Keith, a railroad builder and banana baron; Manuel Bonilla, the Honduran whose cause Zemurray subsidized; and Jose Santos Zelaya, who ruled Nicaragua from 1893 to 1910. The political and social turmoil of modern Central America cannot be understood without reference to the fifty-year epoch in which the United States imposed its political and economic influence on vulnerable Central American societies. The predicament of Central Americans today, as isthmian peoples know, is rooted in their past, and North Americans have had a great deal to do with the shaping of their history, for better or worse. “Recounts incredible stories within the framework of social imperialism and dependency theory.” —Latin American Research Review
Author : Steve Striffler,Mark Moberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822331969
DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div
