Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
- ISBN 13:
9781847671943
- ISBN 10:
1847671942
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 07/08/2009
- Publisher: Canongate U.S.
- Newer Edition
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Summary
The story has its source in United Fruit’s nineteenth-century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica. What follows is a damning examination of the company’s policies: from the marketing of the banana as the first fast food, to the company’s involvement in an invasion of Honduras, a massacre in Colombia, and a bloody coup in Guatemala. Along the way the company fostered covert links with U.S. power brokers such as Richard Nixon and CIA operative Howard Hunt, manipulated the press in new, and stoked the revolutionary ire of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
From the exploited banana republics of Central America to the concrete jungle of New York City, Peter Chapman’s Bananas is 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.