TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colby,Jason M.
TI  - The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U. S. Expansion in Central America
T2  - The United States in the World Series
SN  - 9780801462719
AV  - F1436 
U1  - 327.730728 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - United Fruit Company -- History
KW  - Industrial relations -- Central America -- History
KW  - Central America -- Foreign relations -- United States
KW  - United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America
KW  - Central America -- Commerce -- United States -- History
KW  - United States -- Commerce -- Central America -- History
KW  - Central America -- Race relations -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- The Business of Empire -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of Empire -- 1. Enterprise and Expansion, 1848-1885 -- 2. Joining the Imperial World, 1885-1904 -- Part II. Race and Labor -- 3. Corporate Colonialism, 1904-1912 -- 4. Divided Workers, 1912-1921 -- Part III. Imperial Transitions -- 5. The Rise of Hispanic Nationalism, 1921-1929 -- 6. Reframing the Empire, 1929-1940 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Colby provides 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
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ER  -