LEADER 04581nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910971686803321 005 20251116214631.0 010 $a0-292-79683-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000457712 035 $a(dli)HEB07959 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000108693 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11122167 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108693 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10044559 035 $a(PQKB)10093241 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443205 035 $a(BIP)12038558 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000457712 100 $a20050603d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBanana cultures $eagriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States /$fJohn Soluri 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 321 p. )$cill., maps ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-292-70957-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [293]-313) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aBananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores-- everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively, interdisciplinary study, John Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States.Beginning in the 1870s when bananas first appeared in the U.S. marketplace, Soluri examines the tensions between the small-scale growers, who dominated the trade in the early years, and the shippers. He then shows how rising demand led to changes in production that resulted in the formation of major agribusinesses, spawned international migrations, and transformed great swaths of the Honduran environment into monocultures susceptible to plant disease epidemics that in turn changed Central American livelihoods. Soluri also looks at labor practices and workers' lives, changing gender roles on the banana plantations, the effects of pesticides on the Honduran environment and people, and the mass marketing of bananas to consumers in the United States. His multifaceted account of a century of banana production and consumption adds an important chapter to the history of Honduras, as well as to the larger history of globalization and its effects on rural peoples, local economies, and biodiversity. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aBanana trade$zHonduras 606 $aBanana trade$xSocial aspects$zHonduras 606 $aBanana trade$xEnvironmental aspects$zHonduras 606 $aBanana trade$zUnited States 606 $aBanana trade$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aBanana trade$xSocial aspects$zHonduras 606 $aBanana trade$xEnvironmental aspects$zHonduras 606 $aBanana trade$zUnited States 606 $aBusiness & Economics$2HILCC 606 $aIndustries$2HILCC 615 0$aBanana trade 615 0$aBanana trade$xSocial aspects 615 0$aBanana trade$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aBanana trade 615 0$aBanana trade$xSocial aspects 615 0$aBanana trade$xSocial aspects 615 0$aBanana trade$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aBanana trade 615 7$aBusiness & Economics 615 7$aIndustries 676 $a306.3/49/097283 700 $aSoluri$b John$0791413 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bNyNyACL 801 1$bNyNyACL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971686803321 996 $aBanana cultures$91768833 997 $aUNINA