ISBN:
9781477322819
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (369 pages)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Revised and updated edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Soluri, John, 1967 - Banana cultures
DDC:
306.3/49/097283
Keywords:
Banana trade
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Banana trade Social aspects
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Banana trade Environmental aspects
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Banana trade
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Banana trade Social aspects
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Banana trade--Honduras
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Banana trade--Social aspects--Honduras
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Banana trade--Environmental aspects--Honduras
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"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 stores--everything 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. This new paperback edition features a new preface to the second edition, a new postscript, an updated bibliography, and an updated index"--
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