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This is the beginning of a bibliographical reference list on works on United Fruit. Some works include a summary. Click on "summary" to check that out. We currently need volunteers to review and summarize some of the works listed here. If you want your review to be published in this site, please see the instructions for contributors. We will include some more summaries and works in the future.






  • 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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