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Book Impact of the United Fruit Company on the Economic Development of Guatemala

Download or read book Impact of the United Fruit Company on the Economic Development of Guatemala written by Richard Allen La Barge and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Banana Wars

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  • Author : Steve Striffler
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-11-20
  • ISBN : 9780822331964
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Banana Wars written by Steve Striffler and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div

Book The CIA in Guatemala

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  • Author : Richard H. Immerman
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-07-05
  • ISBN : 0292788673
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The CIA in Guatemala written by Richard H. Immerman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and analysis of the United States’ involvement in the deposition of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and the consequences. Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States’ clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today. “A valuable study of what Immerman correctly portrays as a seminal event, not just in the annals of the Cold War, but in U.S.–Latin American relations.” —Washington Monthly “A damning indictment of American interference abroad.” —Pittsburgh Press “A masterpiece of analysis.” —Reviews in American History

Book Dependency And Intervention

Download or read book Dependency And Intervention written by José M. Aybar de Soto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the interlocking relationship of government and multinational corporations (MNCs) that led to U.S. intervention in Guatemala in 1954. It explains the intervention in terms of the continuous penetration of the extended domain of the metropole.

Book Guatemala and the United States  1954

Download or read book Guatemala and the United States 1954 written by Richard H. Immerman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shattered Hope

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  • Author : Piero Gleijeses
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 1400843499
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Shattered Hope written by Piero Gleijeses and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal

Book The Growth of International Business  RLE International Business

Download or read book The Growth of International Business RLE International Business written by MARK CASSON and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates the work of economists, management scientists and business historians. It applies the related concepts of transaction costs, internalisation, corporate strategy and market structure to explain the historical process of corporate growth in the international economy. Each chapter is written by a scholar who has specialized in a particular aspect of the growth of international business.

Book Bitter Fruit

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  • Author : Stephen Schlesinger
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-01
  • ISBN : 0674260074
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Bitter Fruit written by Stephen Schlesinger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

Book Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin

Download or read book Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin written by Jean Grugel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reasons for their recent intensification. It covers all the Central American states and the largest Caribbean island territories - Jamaica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico - as well as Panama and Grenada, assessing their common experiences as small economies living in the shadow of the United States but also highlighting key differences.

Book A Bibliography of Latin America and the Caribbean the Hilton Library

Download or read book A Bibliography of Latin America and the Caribbean the Hilton Library written by Ronald Hilton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.

Book Research on the American Republics

Download or read book Research on the American Republics written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revolution in the Countryside

Download or read book Revolution in the Countryside written by Jim Handy and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a decisive impact on the nature of change in Guatemala. He looks at the ways in which ethnic and class relations affected government policy and identifies the conflict generated in the countryside by new economic and social policies. Handy provides the most detailed discussion yet of the Guatemalan agrarian reform, and he shows how peasant organizations extended its impact by using it to lay claim to land, despite attempts by agrarian officials and the president to apply the law strictly. By focusing on changes in rural communities, and by detailing the coercive measures used to reverse the "revolution in the countryside" following the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Handy provides a framework for interpreting more recent events in Guatemala, especially the continuing struggle for land and democracy.

Book For the Record

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  • Author : Diane K. Stanley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book For the Record written by Diane K. Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century the United Fruit Company has been the target of innumerable books and articles highly critical of its banana operations in Central America, the Caribbean, Panama and Colombia. U.S. and Latin American scholars have repeatedly accused the Company of nefarious practices that were detrimental to the development of the countries in which it operated.Nowhere has the United Fruit Company (today's Chiquita Brands International) been more criticized than in Guatemala, where, among many other charges, it has been frequently alleged that President Jacobo Arbenz's expropriation of thousands of acres of UFCO's landholdings triggered the U.S. government's 1954 coup against the most progressive government in Guatemala's chaotic and violent history. This book, which puts on the record most of the charges that have been made about the United Fruit Company's sixty-six years in Guatemala (1906-1972), provides a careful analysis of these allegations. While a number of them are certainly valid, an objective study of these indictments demonstrates that United Fruit's role in Guatemala's human and economic development was far more positive than has been previously documented.The book is amply documented with chapter notes and a bibliography listing more than 200 cited works. It includes 25 historical photos, reproduced from the collection of the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de MesoAmerica (CIRMA).

Book Insatiable Appetite

Download or read book Insatiable Appetite written by Richard P. Tucker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive and critical historical overview of the role played by the US as a developer and consumer of tropical nature. -- Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.

Book External Research

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Department of State. External Research Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book External Research written by United States. Department of State. External Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of White Collar   Corporate Crime

Download or read book Encyclopedia of White Collar Corporate Crime written by Lawrence M. Salinger and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a thorough reappraisal of the white-collar and corporate crime scene, this Second Edition builds on the first edition to complete the criminal narrative in an outstanding reference resource.