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Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

By Peter Chapman

Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World Business, Finance & Career

Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

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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 U.S. power brokers such as Richard Nixon and CIA operative Howard Hunt, manipulated the press in new, 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" is 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2009-07-08
Publication Date:
2009-07-31
Publisher:
Canongate UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847671942
ISBN13:
9781847671943
Weight:
193 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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