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Bananas, The Most Frequently Consumed Fresh Fruit In The United States, Have Been Linked To Miss Chiquita And Carmen Miranda, Banana Republics, And Banana Republic Clothing Stores-everything From Exotic Kitsch, To Third World Dictatorships, To Middle-class Fashion. But How Did The Rise In Banana Consumption In The United States Affect The Banana-growing Regions Of Central America? In This Lively, Interdisciplinary Study, John Soluri Integrates Agroecology, Anthropology, Political Economy, And History To Trace The Symbiotic Growth Of The Export Banana Industry In Honduras And The Consumer Mass Market In The United States. Beginning In The 1870s When Bananas First Appeared In The U.s. Marketplace, Soluri Examines The Tensions Between The Small-scale Growers, Who Dominated The Trade In The Early Years, And The Shippers. He Then Shows How Rising Demand Led To Changes In Production That Resulted In The Formation Of Major Agribusinesses, Spawned International Migrations, And Transformed Great Swaths Of The Honduran Environment Into Monocultures Susceptible To Plant Disease Epidemics That In Turn Changed Central American Livelihoods. Soluri Also Looks At Labor Practices And Workers' Lives

Author

Soluri, John

Publisher

Austin: University of Texas Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292709577

Subjects

Science, Technology, Anthropology