The decade long trans-Atlantic banana dispute was not a traditional trade conflict stemming from antagonistic producers …' interests. Instead, this article argues that the banana dispute is one of the most complex illustrations of the legal and … Europe-wide banana policy was an artifact of nesting - the fruit of efforts to reconcile the single market with Lome …

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Global Fruit -- The Global Banana Trade -- Banana …, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador -- ‘‘The Macondo of Guatemala’’: Banana Workers and National … Revolution in Tiquisate, 1944–1954 -- The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana …

Fruit Company in Magdalena in the 1920s -- Nobody's triumph: labor unionism in Magdalena after World War II -- The United …

to eastern Caribbean countries through banana trade preferences. The value of such assistance rose until the early 1990s …

Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such … challenge the perception that multinational corporations face no significant competitors in the banana business and argue that … Ecuador and Colombia are important sources of competition. Focusing on Ecuador, the world's leading exporter of bananas since …

the banana export business.In response to these circumstances, the company abandoned production, selling its plantations …. Nobody’s Triumph: Labor Unionism in Magdalena after World War II -- 7. The United Fruit Company’s Relationship with Local …