In: International law reports, Band 23, S. 605-609
ISSN: 2633-707X
International Organization — Organs of International Administration — Postal Union of the Americas and Spain — Gratuitous Transport by Member of Mail of Other Contracting Parties — Liability for Cost of Transport — Avoidance of Double Payment.
Frontmatter -- Inhalt. -- Teil I. Übersicht über die Bananenwirtschaft in der Welt. -- Kapitel 1. Grundlegende Gesichtspunkte für die Bananenkultur und die Bananenwirtschaft. -- Kapitel 2. Die United Fruit Company. -- Teil II. Die trustfreie Bananenwirtschaft in der Welt. -- Kapitel 1. Der Aufbau der französischen Bananenwirtschaft. -- Kapitel 2. Die britische trustfreie Bananenwirtschaft. -- Kapitel 3. Die deutsche Bananenwirtschaft in Kamerun. -- Kapitel 4. Das italienische Staatsmonopol für Bananen. -- Kapitel 5. Die Ordnungsbestrebungen in der Bananenwirtschaft der Kanarischen Inseln. -- Kapitel 6. Die Banane in Brasilien. -- Kapitel 7. Mexikos Kampf gegen den Trust. -- Kapitel 8. Andere Länder. -- Schlußteil: Zusammenfassung -- Schrifttum.
El artículo discute los antecedentes de las compañías bananeras en América Central y el Caribe en el siglo XIX. En el contexto de las fusiones de finales de siglo que dieron lugar a los trusts norteamericanos tuvo lugar la fundación de la United Fruit Company. El autor discute el carácter "dual" de la inversión norteamericana en la región: de una parte, desarrollo económico, de otra, corrupción y presiones políticas. Narra los orígenes de los cultivos de banano en el Departamento del Magdalena, la instalación de la multinacional norteamericana en la región, lo mismo que las estrategias de la compañía para monopolizar el cultivo y la exportación del fruto. Termina con los hechos de la Masacre de las Bananeras en 1928 y sus repercusiones en la política nacional de la época.
Intro -- Also by Peter Chapman -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List Of Characters -- Chapter One: From The Memory Of Men -- Chapter Two: Lament For A Dying Fruit -- Chapter Three: Roots Of Empire -- Chapter Four: Monopoly -- Chapter Five: The Banana Man -- Chapter Six: Taming The Enclave -- Chapter Seven: Banana Republics -- Chapter Eight: On The Inside -- Chapter Nine: Coup -- Chapter Ten: 'Betrayal' -- Chapter Eleven: Decline And Fall -- Chapter Twelve: Old And Dark Forces -- Epilogue: United Fruit World -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
From hotel luxury suites to working-class lunchboxes -- The United Fruit Company in Latin America: business strategies in a changing environment -- The United Fruit Company and local politics in Colombia -- The Labor conflicts of the United Fruit Company in Magdalena in the 1920s -- Nobody's triumph: labor unionism in Magdalena after World War II -- The United Fruit Company's relationship with local planters in Colombia.
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 on the side -- Conclusion.
The United Fruit Company (UFC), an American corporation, monopolized the banana trade in the British colony of Jamaica for most of the 20th century, despite efforts by the British to establish a foothold (see Clegg 2002). While the British colonial government focused its efforts on challenging the UFC's domination in Jamaica; in 1923, a UFC subsidiary called Swift Banana Company began undertaking the commercial export of bananas in the then British colony of St. Lucia. Research on the St. Lucia banana industry, during the period 1923 to 1942, was very limited, and has largely dismissed the decline of the banana industry as the result of its inability to survive the Panama disease epidemic. This paper challenges this explanation; arguing that UFC subsidiaries contributed significantly to both the rise and decline of St. Lucia's banana industry from 1923 to 1942.
The global banana trade / Laura T. Raynolds -- Banana cultures : linking the production and consumption of export bananas, 1800-1980 / John Soluri -- United Fruit Company in Latin America / Marcelo Bucheli -- One hundred years of United Fruit Company letters / Philippe Bourgois -- Responsible men and sharp yankees : the United Fruit Company, resident elites, and colonial state in British Honduras / Mark Moberg -- The logic of the enclave : United Fruit, popular struggle, and capitalist transformation in Ecuador / Steve Striffler -- "The Macondo of Guatemala" : banana workers and national revolutions in Tiquisate, 1944-1954 / Cindy Forster -- The threat of blackness to the mestizo nation : race and ethnicity in the Honduran banana economy, 1920s and 1930s / Dario Euraque -- Discourses and counterdiscourses on globalization and the St. Lucian banana industry / Karla Slocum -- The St. Vincent Banana Growers' Association, contract farming, and the peasantry / Lawrence Grossman.
AbstractIn much historiography of the colonial Caribbean, British administrators are portrayed as mediators between domestic elites, foreign capital, and the working class. Such scholarship converges with popular belief in Belize, whose institutions are seen as a legacy of 'impartial' British rule. This article examines the relationship between the United Fruit Company and the colonial government of British Honduras. Contrary to claims of administrative impartiality, colonial officials facilitated the company's monopoly over the banana industry and acted as company advocates before the Colonial Office, actions that ultimately undermined the colony's independent banana producers.
Consists primarily of legal opinions addresses to the Costa Rica Oil Corporation concerning litigation with the United Fruit Company over the matter of petroleum rights. ; Mode of access: Internet.