Bananas
Subtitle: how the United Fruit Company shaped the world
By: Peter Chapman.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Canongate; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York , N Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781841958811
Subjects: United Fruit Company -- History.; United Fruit Company -- Corrupt practices.; Banana trade -- Central America -- History.; Bananas -- Social aspects.; International business enterprises -- Corrupt practices.; Central America -- History -- 1951-1979.
Work titles: Jungle capitalists
Notes: Originally published as: Jungle capitalists.

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.
Table of contents: value: From the memory of men; value: Lament for a dying fruit; value: Roots of empire; value: Monopoly; value: The banana man; value: Taming the enclave; value: Banana republics; value: On the inside; value: Coup; value: 'Betrayal'; value: Decline and fall; value: Old and dark forces; value: Epilogue: United fruit world.