Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States PDF
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banana cultures THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK BBAanNaAnNaA CCuUlLtTuUrResES Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States john soluri Revised and Updated Edition UniversityofTexasPress Austin Copyright © 2005 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second paperback printing, 2006 Second edition, 2021 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Names: Soluri, John, author. Title: Banana cultures : agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States / John Soluri. Description: Second edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020040387 ISBN 978-1-4773-2280-2 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-4773-2281-9 (library ebook) ISBN 978-1-4773-2282-6 (nonlibrary ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Banana trade—Honduras. | Banana trade—Social aspects— Honduras. | Banana trade—Environmental aspects—Honduras. | Banana trade—United States. | Banana trade—Social aspects—United States. Classification: LCC HD9259.B3 H678 2021 | DDC 306.3/49097283—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020040387 doi:10.7560/322802 ForAmalia THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK CCOoNntTeEnNtsTS PPrreeffaaccee toi xthe Second Edition: Bananas, Seriously ix PArcekfnacoew tloe dthgme Feinrtsst Edxiition xvii introduction ALicnkkninogwPleldacgemseonftPsr odxuixctionandConsumption 1 intrcohdaupctteiorn1 LGioniknigngB Panlaacnesa sof P1r8oduction and Consumption 1 cchhaapptteerr 21 GSpoaincge BInavnaadnearss 4181 cchhaapptteerr 23 SApltaecree dInLvaandderssc ap4es1andTransformedLivelihoods 75 cchhaapptteerr 43 ASilgtearteodk aL,aSncdiesncacep,esa nadndC Tornatrnoslform10e4d Livelihoods 75 cchhaapptteerr 45 SRiegvaitsoitkian,g StchieenGcere, eanndP rCisoonntrol1 28104 cchhaapptteerr 65 RTehveisLitivinegs athned GTriemene oPfriMsoinss C1h2i8quita 161 cchhaapptteerr 76 LThaeQ Luivímesi caand T19im3 e of Miss Chiquita 161 cchhaapptteerr 87 LBaa nQauníamCicual tur1e9s3inComparativePerspective 216 chapter 8 BNaonteasna C24u7ltures in Comparative Perspective 216 PBoibsltisocgrripatp thoy the2 9S3econd Edition: Beyond Banana Cultures 246 NInodteexs 321655 Bibliography 312 Index 338 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Preface to the Second Edition BANANAS, SERIOUSLY The second edition of any book owes a big debt to readers of the first edition; I am very grateful to the researchers, teachers, and particularly students who have made the time to read Banana Cultures. I also want to acknowledge some of the institutions and organizations that enabled the book to be written and published. I have devoted more than twenty years to working my “first job” in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of History. I am deeply ambiv- alent about working for an institution whose annual student tuition and fees equal the median family income in the United States and whose fac- ulty consists disproportionately of white men (including yours truly). My department, however, has provided me with a humane teaching load, the license to create unconventional courses, and the financial support to attend conferences and do research in some faraway places. It also sustains a wonderful group of scholar/teachers who inspire me and drink beer with me, sometimes simultaneously. For the publication of Banana Cultures, I am deeply grateful to the University of Texas Press, a publicly supported press that has helped to educate readers about Latin America for a long time. I am pleased that the positive reception of Banana Cultures has validated the editors’ decision to publish it. I also want to thank the press for letting me retain trans- lation rights. Although my effort to publish a Spanish-language version of Banana Cultures in Honduras was upended (along with many more important initiatives) by the 2009 overthrow of the government of Man- uel Zelaya, Culturas Bananeras (2013) was eventually published, thanks to friends and institutions in Colombia, including Siglo del Hombre Press and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The modest but steady royalty checks from Banana Cultures covered the costs of translation. The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), the Con- ference on Latin American History (CLAH), and the Sociedad Latino- americana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA) have all provided
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