The banana: empires, trade wars, and globalization

The creation of the banana empire, 1900-1930

The empire challenged, 1930-74

The end of splendid isolation, 1974-93

Peasant farmer societies : commonwealth Caribbean bananas

Belize, Suriname, and the French West Indies : on the margins of the Caribbean

The single European market and the Western Hemisphere's banana industries

Neocolonialism encounters the free trade imperative

The World Trade Organization and the banana trade

The U.S.-EU banana war heats up

Pursuit of an elusive goal

Implications for the future.