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Banana Cultures

Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

by John Soluri

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  • 22 Currently reading

Published by University of Texas Press .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Agriculture & Farming,
  • Cultural studies,
  • Social & cultural anthropology,
  • Technology,
  • History - General History,
  • Science/Mathematics,
  • Mexico,
  • Anthropology - Cultural,
  • Latin America - Central America,
  • History / Central America,
  • Agriculture - General,
  • Environmental Science,
  • Banana trade,
  • Environmental aspects,
  • Honduras,
  • Social aspects

  • The Physical Object
    FormatPaperback
    Number of Pages337
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL9661663M
    ISBN 100292712561
    ISBN 109780292712560

    It's not the first book on the banana (others include Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri (); Bananas: An American History by Virginia Scott Jenkins (); and Banana Wars — the Price of Free Trade: A Caribbean Perspective by Gordon Myers (). But there.   Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States&#;Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural Brand: Duke University Press.

    Soluri seeks to link and explain the economic, social, environmental, and even scientific dimensions of the history of banana cultivation, exportation, and consumption, which connected Honduras and the United States, between the s and the early : Dario A. Euraque. 8. Bananas Cultures in Comparative Perspective. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Summary Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, 'banana republics', and Banana Republic clothing stores - everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class.

    Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States (Book) Book Details. ISBN. Title. Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. Author. Soluri, John. Publisher. University of Texas Press. This book chapter will describe a banana shoot tip culture technique developed by Damasco (). Collection of suckers Different stages of banana keikis (peepers, sword, or maiden suckers) about 1–3 ft (40– cm) tall that are free of BBTV symptoms can be .


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Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Cited by:   The title of this book is plural for a reason. John Soluri ranges across borders in both directions to show the links between the culture of banana consumption in the United States and its effects on workers and the environment in Honduras, as well as how the realities of banana plantations shaped the banana culture in the United States.

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Get FREE 7-day instant eTextbook access. John Soluri’s book Banana Cultures explores the rise of banana consumption in the United States, and the effect it would have on the environment of the North Coast of Honduras from He chose to focus on this part of Honduras as it is estimated that between Honduras exported the most bananas worldwide.

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[John Soluri] -- Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores-everything from. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World Review Dan Koeppels Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World has incredible detail on the history and science of the banana but has significant issues with fluidity and focus.

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John Soluri’s book, Banana Cultures, examines the production of bananas in the world market, “interactions among diverse and often divided people, not-so-diverse banana plants, and persistent yet unpredictable pathogen’s that formed and reformed tropical landscapes and livelihoods in export banana zones” (Soluri 5).Buy Banana Cultures (): Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States: NHBS - John Soluri, University of Texas Press.A lively, interdisciplinary history of why the banana became America's most popular fresh fruit and how its popularity has affected the "banana republics" of Central America.