Conquest of the Tropics; The Story of the Creative Enterprises conducted by the United Fruit Company
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], viixii, [2], 3-368, [4] pp. Green blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, a mounted color illustration on the front board, and a banana bunch embossed in gold on the spine. Green illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. 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. Near Fine. Item #00008283
A Near Fine book with a few hints of wear to the extremities, a beautiful copy.
Price: $100.00