The Business of Empire : : United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America /

The Business of Empire : : United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America / / Jason M. Colby.

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The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Colby, Jason M.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2013
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The United States in the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 halftones, 6 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Foundations of Empire
  • 1. Enterprise and Expansion, 1848-1885
  • 2. Joining the Imperial World, 1885-1904
  • Part II. Race and Labor
  • 3. Corporate Colonialism, 1904-1912
  • 4. Divided Workers, 1912-1921
  • Part III. Imperial Transitions
  • 5. The Rise of Hispanic Nationalism, 1921-1929
  • 6. Reframing the Empire, 1929-1940
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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