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The Business of Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Business of Empire

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 America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. impe...

Making the Empire Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Making the Empire Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-07-17
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection cha...

Official Summary of Security Transactions and Holdings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1126

Official Summary of Security Transactions and Holdings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Trow (formerly Wilson's) Copartnership and Corporation Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1282
Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs

Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs demonstrates that the industry is not globally uniform, nor uniformly rotten. Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts challenge the perception that multinational corporations face no significant competitors in the banana business and argue that Ecuador and Colombia are important sources of competition. Focusing on Ecuador, the world's leading exporter of bananas since the early 1950s, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs highlights the factors that led ...

Drainage Basin Problems and Programs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Drainage Basin Problems and Programs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1938
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Progress Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Progress Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1939
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Circular
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

Circular

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1934
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1939
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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