Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Peter Chapman
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 10th Mar '22
£9.99
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
Description
In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.164 kg |
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| Dimensions | 15 × 129 × 198 mm |
| Page Count | 240 |
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