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Summary Of Peter Chapman S Bananas
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-02T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Peter Chapman S Bananas written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-02T22:59:00Z with Business & Economics categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Pan-American building on New York’s Park Avenue was the site of another suicide in 1975. Eli Black, the head of United Brands, a large food corporation, had thrown himself from the forty-fourth floor. He was a man of exceptional morality, it was said. #2 I was a student at the University of Sussex in 1975, and I remember being shocked by the death of Black. The idea that anyone who ran United Fruit could be considered moral seemed absurd. The company had a long history of changing governments when they didn’t like them, like the one in Guatemala in 1954. #3 The term banana republic is a form of shorthand for political and economic mismanagement, but it is actually a more patronizing and derogatory term than I had thought. It is used as if it describes their original state, while saying very little about what role any aforementioned large external force may have played in creating or exacerbating their predicament. #4 The first multinational corporation was United Fruit, which was created in the mid-1800s. It set the template for capitalism, and its Great White Fleet of refrigerated ships, painted against the heat, ran cruises to places people could scarcely dream of.
Bananas
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Author : Peter Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2022-12-15
Bananas written by Peter Chapman and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Jungle Capitalists
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Author : Peter Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-08-06
Jungle Capitalists written by Peter Chapman and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-06 with History categories.
In this powerful and gripping book, Peter Chapman shows how the pioneering example of the banana importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of today's multinational companies. From the business's 19th Century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica, via the mass-marketing of the banana as the original fast food, United Fruit's involvement in bloody coups in Guatemala and El Salvador, the mid-1970s and the spectacular suicide on Park Avenue of the company's chairman, from its bullying business practices to its covert links to the US government, United Fruit blazed the trail of global capitalism through the 20th Century. Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business, lies and power to show how one company pioneered the growth of globalization and - in doing so - has helped farm the banana to the point of extinction.
Banana
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Author : Dan Koeppel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-12-27
Banana written by Dan Koeppel and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-27 with Business & Economics categories.
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious; nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the “apple” consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn’t it?). Entire Central American nations have been said to rise and fall over the banana. But the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Today’s yellow banana, the Cavendish, is increasingly threatened by such a blight—and there’s no cure in sight. Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist)—ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit.
Banana Wars
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Author : Steve Striffler
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-20
Banana Wars written by Steve Striffler and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-20 with Business & Economics categories.
DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div
Bananas And Business
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Author : Marcelo Bucheli
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2005-02-01
Bananas And Business written by Marcelo Bucheli and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-01 with Business & Economics categories.
For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Criticism of the UFCO has been widespread, ranging from politicians to consumer activists, and from labor leaders to historians, all portraying it as an overwhelmingly powerful corporation that shaped and often exploited its host countries. In this first history of the UFCO in Colombia, Marcelo Bucheli argues that the UFCO's image as an all-powerful force in determining national politics needs to be reconsidered. Using a previously unexplored source—the internal archives of Colombia's UFCO operation—Bucheli reveals that before 1930, the UFCO worked alongside a business-friendly government that granted it generous concessions and repressed labor unionism. After 1930, however, the country experienced dramatic transformations including growing nationalism, a stronger labor movement, and increasing demands by local elites for higher stakes in the banana export business. In response to these circumstances, the company abandoned production, selling its plantations (and labor conflicts) to local growers, while transforming itself into a marketing company. The shift was endorsed by the company's shareholders and financial analysts, who preferred lower profits with lower risks, and came at a time in which the demand for bananas was decreasing in America. Importantly, Bucheli shows that the effect of foreign direct investment was not unidirectional. Instead, the agency of local actors affected corporate strategy, just as the UFCO also transformed local politics and society.
Bitter Fruit
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Author : Stephen Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Bitter Fruit written by Stephen Schlesinger and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with History categories.
Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
Bananas
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Author : Peter Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Us
Release Date : 2007
Bananas written by Peter Chapman and has been published by Canongate Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Banana trade categories.
In this exploration of corporate maneuvering and subterfuge, journalist Chapman shows how the importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized power and influence of today's multinational companies. This infamous company was arguably the most controversial global corporation ever--from the jungles of Costa Rica to the dramatic suicide of its CEO, who leapt from an office on the 44th floor of the Pan Am building in New York City. From the marketing of the banana as the first fast food, to the company's involvement in an invasion of Honduras, the Bay of Pigs crisis, and a bloody coup in Guatemala, Chapman weaves a tale of big business, political deceit, and outright violence to show how one company wreaked havoc in the "banana republics" of Central America, and how terrifyingly similar the age of United Fruit is to our age of rapid globalization.--From publisher description.
The Banana Wars
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Author : Lester D. Langley
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2002
The Banana Wars written by Lester D. Langley and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction, placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the perspective of the Americans involved, the empire carved out by the banana warriors was a domain of bickering Latin American politicians, warring tropical countries, and lawless societies that the American military had been dispatched to police and tutor. Beginning with the Cuban experience, Langley examines the motives and consequences of two military occupations and the impact of those interventions on a professedly antimilitaristic American government and on its colonial agents in the Caribbean, the American military. The result of the Cuban experience, Langley argues, was reinforcement of the view that the American people did not readily accept prolonged military occupation of Caribbean countries. In Nicaragua and Mexico, from 1909 to 1915, where economic and diplomatic pressures failed to bring the results desired in Washington, the American military became the political arbiters; in Hispaniola, bluejackets and marines took on the task of civilizing the tropics. In the late 1920s, with an imperial force largely of marines, the American military waged its last banana war in Nicaragua against a guerrilla leader named Augusto C. Sandino. Langley not only narrates the history of America's tropical empire, but fleshes out the personalities of this imperial era, including Leonard Wood and Fred Funston, U.S. Army, who left their mark on Cuba and Vera Cruz; William F. Fullam and William Banks Caperton, U.S. Navy, who carried out their missions imbued with old-school beliefs about their role as policemen in disorderly places; Smedley Butler and L.W.T. Waller, Sr., U.S.M.C., who left the most lasting imprint of A
Tropical Trees And Forests
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Author : F. Halle
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Tropical Trees And Forests written by F. Halle and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.