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Shibboleth / Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. The title of his best known work, Prisión Verde (1950) succinctly captures this point of view. In contrast, the region's intellectuals, such as Honduran novelist Ramón Amaya Amador, viewed banana plantations as dangerous and oppressive environments that enriched the companies at the cost of human dignity and national sovereignty.

For the fruit companies, these daunting accomplishments were “improvements” wrought by the civilizing influence of the United States. In the early 1900s, U.S.-based banana companies such as United Fruit transformed vast stretches of rainforest into monoculture plantations, while laying railroads and creating settlements that attracted a polyglot mix of workers. Nor is it possible to overstate the impact of bananas in Central America, where no other commodity has so altered the region's ecology, ethnic relations, and power dynamics. domination over “banana republics,” the meanings we impute to the banana speak volumes about the ambiguities of hemispheric interactions. At once an emblem of carefree sensuality in 1940s musicals and of U.S. Among the commodities that symbolize Latin America to those outside the region, few are as multivocal as the banana.

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