The Business of Empire (eBook)

United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America

Jason M. Colby (Autor)

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2011
288 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-6272-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;top-down"e; and "e;bottom-up"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2011
• Reihe/Serie: The United States in the World
• Reihe/Serie: The United States in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones, 6 maps
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Afro-Latin America • American Empire • american influence in latin america • banana farming • british caribbean migrants • british history in the caribbean • British West Indies • central american commerce • central american labor history • commerce in central america • corporate colonialism • corporate expansion • corporate labor policies in central america • growing bananas • hispanic american relations • hispanic nationalism • History of Latin America • history of the banana industry • history of united fruit • jamiacan uprising in guatemala • labor in central america • Labor Migration • Latin Studies • Minor Keith • nationalism in central america • panama railroad company • private industry in south america • race and labor in the united states • race relations in central america • united fruit and the united states empire • United Fruit Company • united fruit company in guatamela • United Fruit, labor division, Hispanic migrant labor, transnational US firms, corporate expansion • united states banana industry • united states dominion in central america • united states enclaves and west indian workers • united states expansion in central america • united states expansion into the caribbean • united states foreign policy in central america • United States Foreign Relations • united states imperial history • united states international history • united states relations in central america • west indian uprising • where do bananas come from
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-6272-X / 080146272X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6272-6 / 9780801462726