Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Global Fruit -- The Global Banana Trade -- Banana Cultures: Linking the Production and Consumption of Export Bananas, 1800–1980 -- United Fruit Company in Latin America -- 2 Central and South America -- One Hundred Years of...

Frontmatter -- AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS / GLOBAL INTERACTIONS -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Capitalist Transformations -- PART ONE The World of Plantations -- Introduction to Part One -- 2 The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador -- 3 The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance -- 4 On...