Conquest of the Tropics; The Story of the Creative Enterprises conducted by the United Fruit Company

Adams, Frederick Upham

Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1914

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8vo. [4], viixii, [2], 3-368, [4] pp. Green blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine and a banana bunch embossed in gilt on the spine. Inset color illustration on the front board. Frontispiece plus forty-six additional full-page illustrations, with other in-text illustrations: these are black and white photographs that show the banana plantations, the freight trains and ships, sugar mills, ancient ruins of Guatemala, Guatemalan and Colombian natives, Spanish cathedrals erected in the Caribbean, vistas of Cuba, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, and several hospitals built by the United Fruit Company in the Caribbean. Romance of Big Business, Volume I. A thorough, early examination of corporate agricultural imperialism and its effects on the people and the biospheres of the countries where such crops were grown. A Near Fine book with a few hints of wear to the extremities, a beautiful copy. Seller Inventory # 00008283

Bibliographic Details

Title: Conquest of the Tropics; The Story of the ...

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York

Publication Date: 1914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First printing.