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United Fruit
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- ISBN 9781838857875
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.
Peter Chapman is a journalist and writer, and a former BBC foreign correspondent in South America. He works for the Financial Times as an editor and writer, and lives in London.
