Introduction: ways of living, ways of knowing -- From scramblers for fruit to banana empire, 1870-1930 -- Tropical … vexations -- Corporate welfarism meets the tropics -- Wandering foci of infection -- Becoming banana cowboys -- Serving science …

Caribbean -- 4. The EU Banana Regime -- 5. Chiquita and Its Influence on US Trade Policy -- 6. Chiquita Overwhelms the Small … Caribbean States -- 7. Impact of US Banana Policy on the Caribbean -- 8. Implications for US National Interest in the Caribbean. …This book provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US …

This book provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US … administration pursue a trade policy of forcing the European Union to dismantle its preferential banana import regime for exports …