Title Banana cowboys : the United Fruit Company and the culture of corporate colonialism / James W. Martin.

Publication Info.	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
	©2018

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Description	1 online resource (x, 252 pages)
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: ways of living, ways of knowing -- From scramblers for fruit to banana empire, 1870-1930 -- Tropical vexations -- Corporate welfarism meets the tropics -- Wandering foci of infection -- Becoming banana cowboys -- Serving science on the side -- Conclusion.
Summary	This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.
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Subject	United Fruit Company.
	United Fruit Company.
	Banana trade -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
	Banana trade.
	Latin America.
	Banana trade -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area.
	Caribbean Area.
	Corporations -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Corporations -- Political aspects.
	United States.
	Corporations.
	Imperialism -- Economic aspects.
	Imperialism -- Economic aspects.
	Imperialism.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America.
	International relations.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Martin, James W., 1972- Banana cowboys. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2018] 9780826359421 (DLC) 2017019123
ISBN	9780826359438 (electronic book)
	0826359434 (electronic book)
	9780826359421 (printed case ; alkaline paper)