The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America (The United States in the World)
By Jason M. Colby.
Description
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 insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central A...
ISBN(s)
0801449154, 9780801449154
