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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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