Banana Cultures Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

Name: Banana Cultures Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
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ISBN: 9780292712560

ISBN-10: 0292712561

ISBN-13: 9780292712560

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Soluri

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Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing storeseverything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively, interdisciplinary study, John Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States. Beginning in the 1870s when bananas first appeared in the U.S.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Linking Places of Production and Consumption



Going Bananas



Space Invaders



Altered Landscapes and Transformed Livelihoods



Sigatoka, Science, and Control



Revisiting the Green Prison



The Lives and Time of Miss Chiquita



La Quimica



Banana Cultures in Comparative Perspective


Notes


Bibliography


Index