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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 774–775.
Published: 01 November 2019
... University Press 2019 Despite the considerable lengths to which the United Fruit Company (UFCO) went to limit or prevent access to its archives, the firm has in recent years been the subject of an impressive array of scholarly works. These studies have examined a wide range of topics, including labor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 525–526.
Published: 01 August 1994
... frequently rob Guatemalans of their historical agency. We should read both these books. Paul Dosal’s straightforward narrative about the United Fruit Company’s Guatemalan venture provides missing pieces of the historical mosaic. Because UFCO records were inaccessible to researchers, previous chroniclers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 768–769.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., $55.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Throughout the mid-twentieth century, the overweening role of US banana companies in Central America provoked the region's major reformist and revolutionary currents. The United Fruit Company (UFCO) and its chief competitor, Standard Fruit...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (4): 706–709.
Published: 01 November 1982
... the profits and properties of the United Fruit Company (UFCO) and to the point where democratic reforms permitted communists to excel in the labor movement, to be elected to Congress, and to be employed in the middle ranks of the bureaucracy is what prompted a reaction in Washington. Groundwork...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 741–742.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of production and shipping. From its founding, United Fruit (UFCO) has been the most brazen in seeking these goals through predatory pricing, bribery, military coups, ethnic manipulation of workers, and even mass murder, an actual incident lightly disguised as fictional history in García Marquez’s One Hundred...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 2004
.... She challenges long-held beliefs that United Fruit (UFCO) was the most important actor in the process and persuasively argues that “banana exports and labor migration responded to separate dynamics, neither of which functioned at the will of UFCO officials” (p. 4). While acknowledging that UFCO...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (2): 309–310.
Published: 01 May 2013
... worker who beheaded his black supervisor. Deportation campaigns against blacks were the legal counterpart of lynching across Central America. This was a variety of Hispanic nationalism akin to Confederate patriotism. Philippe Bourgois has uncovered UFCO precursors to what would later be called death...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 641–668.
Published: 01 November 2016
... written, Carlos Luis Fallas's Mamita Yunai (1941), is set in the Caribbean province of Limón, where the American-based United Fruit Company (UFCO) established banana plantations in the 1880s. The story takes place in 1940 and opens by recounting the trials and tribulations of the protagonist—a member...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (4): 840–841.
Published: 01 November 2002
... time perpetuate Guatemalan dependency on multinational corporations such as the United Fruit Company (UFCO), International Railways of Central America (IRCA), and Empresa Eléctrica. Streeter’s extensive research and cogent prose effectively reveals the various efforts United States officials employed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 633–637.
Published: 01 August 2000
... Institute to produce a sophisticated analysis of Arbenz’s agrarian reform. Revolution in the Countryside demonstrates how Arbenz’s agrarian reform triggered conflicts far beyond the United Fruit Company (UFCO) and the United States government. The agrarian reform generated conflict within and between...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 February 2011
... to which the US government and the United Fruit Company (UFCO) clashed with the British, who on occasion came to the defense of West Indians, for instance in the 1909 to 1919 wave of mobilization when the Jamaican Union launched a strike that managed to overcome intense divisions among blacks. In that time...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 445–491.
Published: 01 August 1994
... subsidiary. 82 The railroad went to Golfìto, the UFCO-owned port founded in 1938 to serve the company’s new Pacific coast banana plantations. 83 In addition to its potential as a coffee zone, the area that became Coto Brus thus had two important locational advantages in the early 1940s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 321–358.
Published: 01 May 1988
.... Keith, president of the United Fruit Company (UFCO). In 1915, Novella, Hodgsdon, and Keith reorganized Novella y Cía. as the Novella Cement Company, incorporated in New York, with a paid-in capital of 250,000 U.S. dollars, and an authorized capital of 5,000,000 dollars. Keith held 60 percent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 February 2000
... of the United States. According to LeGrand, the UFCO cemented a community in the region under its control, giving rise to an intricate local popular culture averse to the negative aspects of moneymaking and labor exploitation. In connecting the past to the present, LeGrand offers us vistas rich in nuances which...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 563–585.
Published: 01 August 1994
...; it showed the key role played by United Fruit Company workers and their organizing in souring relations between the Arévalo and Arbenz governments, UFCO, and thereby the United States. Euraque addressed the issue of nationalism and state formation in Honduras, showing how racial and ethnic diversity...
