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IntroductionPart One: Banana in Latin America - The Plantation ModelEmerges1. The Creation of the Banana Empire (1900-1930); 2. The EmpireChallenged (1930-1974); 3. The End of Splendid Isolation (1974-1993)Part Two:The Caribbean Banana Industry - A Banana Cornucopia4. Commonwealth Caribbean:Bananas: Peasant Farmer Societies; 5. Belize, Suriname, and the French WestIndies: On the Margins of the CaribbeanPart Three: The Changing InstitutionalFramework of the International Banana Trade6. The EU's Single European Marketand the Western Hemispere's Banana Industries; 7. The Lome Convention:Neocolonialism Encounters the Free Trade Imperative; 8. The World TradeOrganization and the Banana Trade; 9. Banana Split: The US-EU Banana WarHeats UpPart Four: Globalization--A New Stage for the Banana10. Sacrifice atthe Altar of Competitiveness: Pursuit of an Elusive Goal; 11. Globalizationand the US-EU Banana War: Implications for the Future