LEADER 04184nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910781840603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-7899-5 010 $a0-8014-6272-X 010 $a0-8014-6271-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462719 035 $a(CKB)2550000000062994 035 $a(OCoLC)763161312 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10508782 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000566565 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11377523 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566565 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10549179 035 $a(PQKB)11412243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138257 035 $a(DE-B1597)527066 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462719 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58400 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138257 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10508782 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681766 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000062994 100 $a20110510d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe business of empire$b[electronic resource] $eUnited Fruit, race, and U.S. expansion in Central America /$fJason M. Colby 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aThe United States in the world 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50484-9 311 $a0-8014-4915-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEnterprise and expansion, 1848-1885 -- Joining the imperial world, 1885-1904 -- Corporate colonialism, 1904-1912 -- Divided workers, 1912-1921 -- The rise of Hispanic nationalism, 1921-1929 -- Reframing the empire, 1929-1940. 330 $aThe link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930's, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire. 410 0$aUnited States in the world. 606 $aIndustrial relations$zCentral America$xHistory 607 $aCentral America$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zCentral America 607 $aCentral America$xCommerce$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xCommerce$zCentral America$xHistory 607 $aCentral America$xRace relations$xHistory 615 0$aIndustrial relations$xHistory. 676 $a327.730728 700 $aColby$b Jason M$g(Jason Michael),$f1974-$01468105 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781840603321 996 $aThe business of empire$93679073 997 $aUNINA