Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

Peter Chapman

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN:	9781838857875
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Imprint:	Canongate
Pub date:	10 Mar 2022
DEWEY:	338.174772098
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	224
Weight:	168g
Height:	129mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	21mm