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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : caste and class in southern Belize
- Culture and history in the forgotten district
- Boom, bust, and monopoly control : cycles of banana production in Belize
- Local and international contexts of production
- Out of work in the fields of gold : Belizean labor in the banana industry
- Central American immigration : the reshaping of a labor market
- The construction of ethnicity on banana farms
- Transnational identities and trajectories in the banana belt
- Toward paths that unite : strategies of nationhood and development
- Epilogue : the crushing of banderas unidas.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.
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Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Call Numbers:
- HD9259.B3 B426 1997
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ISBNs:
- 087049970X (alk. paper)
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 96051261
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OCLC Numbers:
- 36074473