A Camera in the Garden of Eden : : The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic / / Kevin Coleman.
In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company’s power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean coun...
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