The business of empire
Subtitle: United Fruit, race, and U.S. expansion in Central America
By: Jason M. Colby
Series: The United States in the world; United States in the world
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780801449154
Subjects: Commerce; Race relations; United Fruit Company; Industrial relations; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enterprise and expansion, 1848-1885; title: Joining the imperial world, 1885-1904; title: Corporate colonialism, 1904-1912; title: Divided workers, 1912-1921; title: The rise of Hispanic nationalism, 1921-1929; title: Reframing the empire, 1929-1940.