The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America

by Jason M. Colby

Book Overview

The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478995
• ISBN13: 9780801478994
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher