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Bananas
- Author
- Peter Chapman
- Narrator
- Michael Langan
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 15 September 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D. C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups, and brutalized workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.
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- Author
- Peter Chapman
- Narrator
- Michael Langan
- Duration
- 6 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9798331929268
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Globalization, Capitalism, History of the Americas
Synopsis
In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D. C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups, and brutalized workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.
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