Description
Product ID: | 9781838857875 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Bananas |
Subtitle: | How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World |
Authors: | Author: Peter Chapman |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Consumerism, Business strategy, Consumerism, Business strategy, Latin America |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 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. |
Imprint Name: | Canongate Books |
Publisher Name: | Canongate Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-03-10 |