Business of Empire United Fruit, Race, and U. S. Expansion in Central America

Name: Business of Empire United Fruit, Race, and U. S. Expansion in Central America
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ISBN: 9780801478994

ISBN-10: 0801478995

ISBN-13: 9780801478994

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jason M. Colby

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The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S.…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Jason M. Colby is Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.