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Author Bucheli, Marcelo, author.

Title Bananas and business : the United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000 / Marcelo Bucheli.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2005]
2005

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations, maps
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From hotel luxury suites to working-class lunchboxes -- The United Fruit Company in Latin America: business strategies in a changing environment -- The United Fruit Company and local politics in Colombia -- The Labor conflicts of the United Fruit Company in Magdalena in the 1920s -- Nobody's triumph: labor unionism in Magdalena after World War II -- The United Fruit Company's relationship with local planters in Colombia.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject United Fruit Company -- History.
Banana trade -- Colombia -- Magdalena (Department) -- History -- 20th century.
Banana trade -- Colombia -- Uraba, Gulf of, Region -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bucheli, Marcelo. Bananas and business : the United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000. New York : New York University Press, [2005] xi, 241 pages ; 24 cm. 9780814799345 (DLC) 2004017316
ISBN 0814799345 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814799345
9781479838226 (e-book)

 
    
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