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Download or read book (A) Trip to "Banana-Land". written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christina Estel Green
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Journey to Banana Land written by Christina Estel Green and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written about banana production and, in particular, the influential United Fruit Company in the circum-Caribbean, relatively little has been written about Afro-Caribbean migrant laborers in general and female Afro-Caribbean migrant laborers specifically. So little has been written in part because so little can be found about or from Afro-Caribbean women workers in traditional historical archives. In my dissertation, I draw on my interdisciplinary interests in Ethnic Studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, and Gender and Women studies to examine the histories of Afro-Caribbean labor migration during the inception of banana industrialization in the circum-Caribbean at the turn of the twentieth-century, with an eye toward capturing the experiences of Afro-Caribbean female migrant laborers. Using the industrialization of the banana as a backdrop, my project works to complicate depictions of racialized and gendered labor migration in the circum-Caribbean through a tracing of the development of racialization, gender, class, citizenship, and labor in various material depictions of Afro-Caribbean workers. I do so by conducting a visual and discursive analysis of a range of cultural artifacts--cinematic and documentary film, photography, UFCO advertisements, oral histories, and archival material from the United States, Honduras, and Great Britain.
Download or read book (A) Visit to "Banana-Land". written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Chapman
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838859764
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Bananas written by Peter Chapman and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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ISBN 13 : 9789811159084
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Welcome to Banana Land! written by and published by . This book was released on 201? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mace Andress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Radio Bound for Banana Land written by James Mace Andress and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Chapman
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192009
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Bananas written by Peter Chapman and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company. In this compelling history of the United Fruit Company, Financial Times writer Peter Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business, deceit, and violence, exploring the origins of arguably one of the most controversial global corporations ever, and the ways in which their pioneering example set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of today’s multinational companies. The story has its source in United Fruit’s nineteenth-century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica. What follows is a damning examination of the company’s policies: from the marketing of the banana as the first fast food, to the company’s involvement in an invasion of Honduras, a massacre in Colombia, and a bloody coup in Guatemala. Along the way the company fostered covert links with US power brokers such as Richard Nixon and CIA operative Howard Hunt, manipulated the press, and stoked the revolutionary ire of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. From the exploited banana republics of Central America to the concrete jungle of New York City, Peter Chapman’s Bananas “make[s] us realise what a long and complex moral journey even something as seemingly innocent as a banana has made to our fruit bowls” (The Guardian).
Author : Catherine Russell
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822323198
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Experimental Ethnography written by Catherine Russell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated theoretical consideration of the related aesthetics and histories of ethnographic and experimental non-fiction films.
Author : Jeroen Kraaijenbrink
Publisher : Effectual Strategy Press
ISBN 13 : 908234436X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (823 download)
Download or read book No More Bananas written by Jeroen Kraaijenbrink and published by Effectual Strategy Press. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Feel better, get done more and become a nicer person” In this age of social media, fake news, individualism and information overload, the certainties we relied on in the past are gone. In our quest for assurance and support, the only seemingly dependable pillar left is other people. So we look to them. But they are unsettled too. And by looking to them, we create and perpetuate our own vicious stress-cycle. As a result, we lose our sensible selves. And we go bananas. But there is good news. If we look around us, there are people who withstand the collective lunacy and stay grounded. They do something that most of us have a hard time doing: they stay themselves. And the best news is that what they can do, you can do too. It doesn’t require any special talents or supernatural powers. It only requires doing. In this amiable, open and accessible book, Jeroen Kraaijenbrink takes you on his personal journey out of Bananaland. Drawing from cognitive psychology, martial arts, Saint Benedict, personal experience, and a wide range of other sources, the book offers a nine-step approach with some remarkably practical advice for keeping a cool head in the collective lunacy. “Free yourself from the collective lunacy and reclaim your calm and sensible self”
Author : Stephen P. Reyna
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785330802
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Deadly Contradictions written by Stephen P. Reyna and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: as a polemic against geopolitics, as a classic social anthropological text, or as a seminal analysis of twenty-four US global wars during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.
Author : Alexander Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135010366
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Latin America since Independence written by Alexander Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Latin America, after all? While histories of the "other" Americas often link disparate histories through revolutionary or tragic narratives, Latin America since Independence begins with the assumption that our efforts to imagine a common past for nearly thirty countries are deeply problematic. Without losing sight of chronology or regional trends, this text offers glimpses of the Latin American past through carefully selected stories. Each chapter introduces students to a specific historical issue, which in turn raises questions about the history of the Americas as a whole. Key themes include: Race and Citizenship Inequality and Economic Development Politics and Rights Social and Cultural Movements Globalization Violence and Civil Society The short, thematic chapters are bolstered by the inclusion of relevant primary documents – many translated for the first time – including advertisements and posters, song lyrics, political speeches, government documents, and more. Each chapter also includes timelines highlighting important dates and suggestions for further reading. Richly informative and highly readable, Latin America since Independence provides compelling accounts of this region’s past and present. This second edition brings the story up to the present, with revised chapters, new primary documents and images, and a new ‘At A Glance’ feature that uses a selection of maps and tables to illuminate key issues like the economy, the environment, and demographics. For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Latin America since Independence companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/dawson.
Author : Peter Chapman
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847676863
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Jungle Capitalists written by Peter Chapman and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and gripping book, Peter Chapman shows how the pioneering example of the banana importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of today's multinational companies. From the business's 19th Century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica, via the mass-marketing of the banana as the original fast food, United Fruit's involvement in bloody coups in Guatemala and El Salvador, the mid-1970s and the spectacular suicide on Park Avenue of the company's chairman, from its bullying business practices to its covert links to the US government, United Fruit blazed the trail of global capitalism through the 20th Century. Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business, lies and power to show how one company pioneered the growth of globalization and - in doing so - has helped farm the banana to the point of extinction.
Author : James F. Hancock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351977075
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power written by James F. Hancock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture – "best" through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "worst" as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers. This book traces the social, political and evolutionary history of seven major plantation crops – sugarcane, banana, cotton, tea, tobacco, coffee and rubber. It describes how all of these were domesticated in antiquity and grown by small landowners for thousands of years before European traders and colonists sought to make a profit out of them. The author relates how their development and spread were closely associated with government expansionist policies. They stimulated the exploration of far off lands, were the focus of major conflicts and led to the enslavement of both native and displaced peoples. From the southern United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, to Asia and Africa, plantation crops turned social structures upside down leading to revolution and government change. The economies of whole countries became tied to the profits of these plantations, leading to internal power struggles to control the burgeoning wealth. Open warfare routinely broke out between the more powerful countries and factions for trade dominance. This book shows that from the early 1500s to today, at least one of the plantation crops was always at the center of world politics, and that this still continues today, for example with the development of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia. Written in an accessible style, it is fascinating supplementary reading for students of agricultural, environmental and colonial history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Unifruitco written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135902569
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Popular Representations of Development written by David Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies. Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of ‘development’ – defined broadly as problems of poverty and social deprivation, and the various agencies and processes seeking to address these – is normally one that is discussed by social scientists and policy makers, it also has a wider ‘popular’ dimension. Development is something that can be understood through studying literature, films, and other non-conventional forms of representation. It is also a public issue, one that has historically been associated with musical movements such as Live Aid and increasingly features in newer media such as blogs and social networking. The book connects the effort to build a more holistic understanding of development issues with an exploration of the diverse public sphere in which popular engagement with development takes place. This book gives students of development studies, media studies and geography as well as students in the humanities engaging with global development issues a variety of perspectives from different disciplines to open up this new field for discussion.
Author : United States. Agency for International Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Evaluation Report, Dominican Republic Agricultural Sector written by United States. Agency for International Development and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard W. Darrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Dartnell Public Relations Handbook written by Richard W. Darrow and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
