[Ebook pdf] The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America (The United States in the World)
☆ Jason M. Colby ☆
| #954599 in Books | Jason M Colby | 2013-12-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.70 x6.00l,.95 | File Name: 0801478995 | 288 pages | The Business of Empire
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Sound work of scholarship explains the role of race on banana plantations|By R. Werdinger|I've been reading and researching about Costa Rica for a while now but this book is the first one that squarely addresses the issue of race. Even prosperous and successful Costa Rica has a shadow, and that is its creation of a "leyenda blanca"-- the white legend that denies the non-Europe||| "Colby's tightly focused research on race adds a new layer of understanding to the subject of U.S. domination in Central America. Concentrating on the varied environments of the Panama Canal Zone, self-defined 'white' Costa Rica, and Guatemala, with its la
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 archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role ...
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