Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Mark Moberg and Steve Striffler 1
1. A Global Fruit
The Global Banana Trade / Laura T. Raynolds 23
Banana Cultures: Linking the Production and Consumption of Export Bananas, 1800–1980 / John Soluri 48
United Fruit Company in Latin America / Marcelo Bucheli 80
2. Central and South America
One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters / Philippe Bourgois 103
Responsible Men and Sharp Yankees: The United Fruit Company, Resident Elites, and Colonial State in British Honduras / Mark Moberg 145
The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador / Steve Striffler 171
"The Macondo of Guatemala": Banana Workers and National Revolutions in Tiquisate, 1944–1954 / Cindy Forster 191
The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s / DarÍo A. Euraque 229
3. The Caribbean
Discourses and Counterdiscourses on Globalization and the St. Lucian Banana Industry / Karla Slocum 253
The St. Vincent Banana Growers' Association, Contract Farming, and the Peasantry / Lawrence S. Grossman 286
Conclusions: Dialectical Bananas / Allen Wells 316
Bibliography 335
Contributors 361
Index 363