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- ADAMS, Frederick Upham, Conquest
of the tropics (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Company,
1914) [Review this book!]
- ARGUETA, Mario, Bananos y política:
Samuel Zemurray y la Cuyamel Fruit Company en Honduras, Colección:
Realidad Nacional, # 27 (Tegucigalpa: Editorial Universitaria, Universidad
Autónoma de Honduras, 1987) [Review this book!]
- BATRES, Alejandra, "The Experience of
the Guatemalan United Fruit Company Workers, 1944-1954: Why Did They
Fail?" Texas Papers on Latin America, Paper No. 95-01, (Austin:
University of Texas at Austin,1995)
- BAUER, Alfonso & Julio VALLADARES, La Frutera
ante la ley (Guatemala City: Ministerio de Economía y Trabajo,
1949)
- BITTER, Wilhelm, Die wirtschaftliche Eroberung
Mittelamerikas durch den Bananen-Trust; Organisation und imperialistische
Bedeutung der United Fruit Company (Hamburg: Braunschweig, G. Westermann,
1921)
- BOTERO, Fernando & Alvaro GUZMAN, "El
enclave agrícola en la zona bananera de Santa Marta."
Cuadernos Colombianos, #11, 1977
- BOURGOIS, Philippe, Ethnicity at Work: Divided
Labor on a Central-American Banana Plantation (Johns Hopkins, 1989)
[Review this book!]
- BRUNGARDT,Maurice P., "The United Fruit
Company in Colombia", in Henry DETHLOFF and Joseph PUSATERI,
American Business History: Case Studies (Arlington Heights: Harlan
Davidson, Inc., 1987)
- BUCHELI, Marcelo, Empresas multinacionales
y enclaves agricolas: el caso de United Fruit en Magdalena y Uraba,
Colombia (1948-1968) (Bogota: Universidad de los Andes - Facultad
de Administracion, Series Monografias, # 40, 1994)
- BUCHELI, Marcelo, "United Fruit Company
in Latin America: Institutional Uncertainties and Changes in its Operations,
1900-1970" in Steve STRIFFLER and Mark MOBERG (eds.), Banana
Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas (Durham: Duke
University Press, 2003)
- BUCHELI, Marcelo, "United Fruit Company
in Colombia: Impact of Labor Relations and Governmental Regulations
on its Operations" Essays in Economic and Business History, vol
15, 1997.
- CASTRILLON, Alberto, Ciento Veinte Dias de
Terror Militar (Bogota: Tupac Amaru, 1974)
- CASEY GASPAR, Jeffrey, Limón, 1880-1940
: un estudio de la industria bananera en Costa Rica (San Jose: Editorial
Costa Rica, 1979)
- CHOMSKY, Aviva, West Indian Workers and the
United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 (Louisiana State University
Press, 1996)
- CLEGG, Peter & Timothy SHAW, The Caribbean
Banana Trade: From Colonialism to Globalization (London: Palgrave/McMillan,
2002)
- DANILO, Hector, La CIA, Washington y las transnacionales
(La Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1977)
- DAVIES, Peter N., Fyffes and the Banana: A
Centenary History, 1888-1988 (New Jersey: Athlone Press, 1990)
- DE LEON, Oscar, Los contratos de la United
Fruit Company y las companias muelleras en Guatemala : estudio historico-juridico
(Guatemala: Ministerio de Economia y Trabajo, 1950)
- DOSAL, Paul, Doing Business with the Dictators
: a Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 (Wilmington,
DE : SR Books, c1993) [summary]
- ELLIS, Frank, Las transnacionales del banano
en Centroamerica (San Jose: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana,
1983)[summary]
- EURAQUE, Dario, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic:
Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972 (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1996) [Review this book!]
- GARCIA BUCHARD, Ethel, Poder político,
interés bananero e identidad nacional en Centro América
: un estudio comparativo : Costa Rica (1884-1938) y Honduras (1902-1958)
(Tegucigalpa: Editorial Universitaria de Honduras, 1997)
- GLEIJESES, Piero, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan
Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1991)
- GROSSMAN, Lawrence S., The Political Ecology
of Bananas: Contracting Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in
the Eastern Caribbean (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1998)
- JENKINS, Virginia S., Bananas: An American
History (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2000)
- JOSLING, Timothy & T. TAYLOR, Banana Wars:
The Anatomy of a Trade Dispute (London: CABI Publishing, 2002)
- KARNES, Thomas L.,Tropical Enterprise: The
Standard Fruit & Steamship Company in Latin America (Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1978) [Review this book!]
- KEPNER, Charles David, Social Aspects of the
Banana Industry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936)
- KEPNER, Charles David & Jay SOOTHILL, The
Banana Empire: a Case Study of Economic Imperialism (New York, Russell
& Russell [1967, c1935])
- LABARGE, Richard, Studies in Middle American
economics (New Orleans, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane
University,1968) [summary]
- LANGLEY, Lester & Thomas SCHOONOVER, The
Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America,
1880-1930 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1995)
- LEGRAND, Catherine, "Living in Macondo:
Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana Enclave (Santa
Marta, Colombia, 1890-1930)", in Gilbert Joseph, Ricardo Salvatore
& Catherine LeGrand, Close Encounters of the Imperial Kind: Writing
the Cultural History of U.S. - Latin American Relations (Duke University
Press, 1998)
- LEGRAND, Catherine, "Colombian Transformations:
Peasants and Wage-Labourers in the Santa Marta Banana Zone",
Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. II, # 4, July (1984) [summary]
- LEGRAND, Catherine, "El conflicto de las
bananeras," in Alvaro Tirado (ed), Nueva Historia de Colombia
(Bogota: Tercer Mundo, 1989)
- MACCAMERON, Robert, Bananas, labor, and politics
in Honduras, 1954-1963 (Syracuse, N.Y. : Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1983) [summary]
- MCLEOD, Marc Christian, "Let's maintain
unity!:" Railway Workers and the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954
(Austin: Texas Papers on Latin America, 93-09, 1993)
- MARQUARDT, Steve, "Pesticides, Parakeets,
and Unions in the Costa Rican Banana Industry, 1938-1962" Latin
American Research Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2002 [summary]
- MOBERG, Mark, Myths of Ethnicity and Nation:
Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry, (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1997) [Review this book!]
- MAY, Stacy & Galo PLAZA, The United Fruit
Company in Latin America (Washington, National Planning Association,
1957) [summary]
- MCCANN, Thomas, An American Company: the Tragedy
of United Fruit (New York: Crown, 1976)
- MORENO, Ruben Dario, Ecuador, economía
y política en el último siglo (Quito: Facultad de Ciencias
Economicas, 1984)
- OROZCO, Constance, The United Fruit Company
in Central America: a Bargaining Power Analysis (Austin, Texas : University
of Texas at Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1991)
- OVERALL, Mario E., Secret Warriors" Latin
American Aviation Historical Society (electronic journal) [Read the
article]
- PONCE DE AVALOS, Reynaldo, La United Fruit
y la Segunda Republica (Comayaguela: Bulnes, 1960)
- PUTNAM, Lara, The company they kept : migrants
and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
- READ, Ian, "The Rise and Fall of United
Fruit Company: Reinterpreting the Role of the United States Government
and American Popular Opinion" (Stanford: Unpublished Paper, 2000)
- READ, Robert, "The Growth and Structure
of Multinationals in the Banana Export Trade" in Mark CASSON,
The Growth of International Business (London/Boston: Allen & Unwin,
1983) [summary]
- RICORD, Humberto et al., Panamá y la
frutera: una batalla contra el colonialismo (Panama City: Editorial
Universitaria de Panamà, 1974) [Review this book!]
- ROSA, Carlos, "Fruit Flyers" Latin
American Aviation Historical Society (electronic journal), 2002 [Read
the article]
- SCHLESINGER, Stephen & Stephen KINZER,
Bitter Fruit : the Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
(Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1982) [summary]
- STANLEY, Diane, For the record : the United
Fruit Company's sixty-six years in Guatemala (Guatemala : Centro Impresor
Piedra Santa, 1994) [summary]
- STEPHENS, Clyde S. Bananeros in Central America;
True Stories of the Tropics (Alva, FL : Banana Books, 1989)
- STEPHENS, Clyde S. La historia de Punto Hospital.
Centro Medico Pionero, 1899-1920/History of Hospital Point. Pioneer
Medical Center, 1899-1920 (Leesburg, FL: Leesburg Printing Co., 1997)
[summary]
- STEWART, Watt, Keith and Costa Rica: A Biographical
Study of Minor Cooper Keith (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 1964)
- STRIFFLER, Steve, In the Shadows of State and
Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian
Re-structuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 (Durham: Duke University Press,
2002) [summary]
- STRIFFLER, Steve and Mark MOBERG (eds.), Banana
Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas (Durham: Duke
University Press, 2003) [summary]
- ULLOA, Jose Angel, La Frutera en Honduras:
el extraño caso de su defensor en Guatemala, Clemente Marroquín
Rojas (Guatemala City: Ministerio de Economía y Trabajo, 1949)
[Review this book!]
- URRA, Pedro, La Guerra del Banano: de la Mamita
Yunai a la UPEB (Buenos Aires: Colección Tierra Nueva, 1975)
[Review this book!]
- WHITE, Judith, The United Fruit Company in
the Santa Marta Banana Zone, Colombia: Conflicts of the '20s (Oxford:
Unpublished paper, 1971)
- WILSON, Charles, Empire in green and gold;
the story of the American banana trade (New York: Holt, 1947)
- ZANETTI, Oscar & Alejandro GARCIA, eds,
United Fruit Company: un caso de dominio imperialista en Cuba (La
Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1976) [Review this book!]
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