![]() ![]() Banana Cultures leaves the reader with an understanding of the banana export trade that combines history and the botany and agriculture of the banana with a discussion of production, economics, and the changing culture of consumption in the United States. Fischer ― Journal of Latin American Studies\n provides a well-written, balanced, and multifaceted perspective on the banana. This book makes an important contribution to the field by connecting banana production and consumption, and its accessible style makes it well suited for classroom use. Soluri has accomplished what I thought impossible: writing a new and innovative book on one of the most-mined topics in Central American history. ![]() ![]() This ambitious treatise on ‘banana cultures' links Honduran production with North American consumption, ecumenically drawing on archival records and oral histories as well as the burgeoning field of agroecology and the interpretive methodologies of cultural studies. Review\nAn historian by profession, John Soluri has written a book that defies disciplinary pigeonholing. ![]()
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