Banana Cultures : : Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States / / John Soluri.
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 i...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 25 b&w photos, 5 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Linking Places of Production and Consumption
- Chapter 1 Going Bananas
- Chapter 2 Space Invaders
- Chapter 3 Altered Landscapes and Transformed Livelihoods
- Chapter 4 Sigatoka, Science, and Control
- Chapter 5 Revisiting the Green Prison
- Chapter 6 The Lives and Time of Miss Chiquita
- Chapter 7 La Química
- Chapter 8 Banana Cultures in Comparative Perspective
- Postscript to the Second Edition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index