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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Printing Art
Author: The Business of Empire
Author: Jason M. ColbyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080146272X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book 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 America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930s, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire.
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Around the Caribbean and Across Panama
Author: Francis Child NicholasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: New Haven Free Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Printing Art
Author: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909
Author: The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description