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"Winner of the 2001 President's Award of the Social Science History Association

In the Shadows of State and Capital" tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler looks at the quintessential form of twentieth-century U.S. imperialism in the region--the banana industry and, in particular, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita). He argues that, even within this...

The first comprehensive history of US-Latin American solidarity from the Haitian Revolution to the present day.

"Winner of the 2001 President's Award of the Social Science History Association

In the Shadows of State and Capital" tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler looks at the quintessential form of twentieth-century U.S. imperialism in the region--the banana industry and, in particular, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita). He argues that, even within this...

Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. "Banana Wars" is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe. The first book to examine these processes in all the western hemisphere regions where bananas are grown for sale abroad, "Banana Wars" advances the growing body of scholarship...

The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture.