Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
ISBN-10
1838859764
ISBN-13
9781838859763
Series
Bananas
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2022-12-15
Publisher
Canongate Books
Author
Peter Chapman

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.

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