316 pages
19 photographs, 8 tables, 9 maps, index
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Part 1. A Banana Plantation Model Emerges in Latin America
1. The Creation of the Banana Empire, 1900-1930
2. The Empire Challenged, 1930-74
3. The End of Splendid Isolation, 1974-93
Part 2. The Caribbean Banana Industries
4. Peasant Farmer Societies: Commonwealth Caribbean Bananas
5. Belize, Suriname, and the French West Indies: On the Margins of the Caribbean
Part 3. The Changing Framework of the International Banana Trade
6. The Single European Market and the Western Hemisphere's Banana Industries
7. Neocolonialism Encounters the Free Trade Imperative
8. The World Trade Organization and the Banana Trade
9. The U.S.-EU Banana War Heats Up
Part 4. Globalization
10. Pursuit of an Elusive Goal
11. Implications for the Future
Notes
References
Index