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Bananas - How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman
Category: Popular History
From their nineteenth-century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica to reaching the halls of power in Washington, D.C, from the mass-marketing of the banana as the first fast food, to fostering covert links with the CIA and involvement with a bloody coup in Guatemala, the United Fruit Company pioneere ...Show more
Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by CHAPMAN PETER
Category: Biography
In this compelling history of the United Fruit Company, "Financial Times" writer Peter Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business, deceit, and violence, exploring the origins of arguably one of the most controversial global corporations ever, and the ways in which their pioneering example set the pr ...Show more
Jungle Capitalists : A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Capitalism by Peter Chapman
Category: History
In this powerful and gripping book, Peter Chapman shows how the pioneering example of the banana importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of today's multinational companies.From the business' 19th Century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica, via the mass-marketing of t ...Show more
Jungle Capitalists : A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution by Peter Chapman
Category: History
Jungle Capitalists reveals how one company pioneered the growth of globalisation and, in doing so, helped farm the banana to the point of extinction. In this powerful and gripping book, Peter Chapman shows how the pioneering example of the importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalise ...Show more
Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain by Peter Chapman
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
In the summer of 1966 Peter Chapman was a naive 18-year-old from the Angel in north London. He was just about to enter the world of work, having flunked his A Levels and recently discovered that he would not be fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer at Leyton Orient. As a young man o ...Show more
The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008 by Peter Chapman
Category: Business Finance Management
In 1844 Henry Lehman arrived in the United States from Germany and, with his brother Emanuel, established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers. In 2008 Dick Fuld, the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, filed for corporate bankruptcy amid one of the worst financial crises ...Show more
The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008 by Peter Chapman
Category: Business
On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a boat from Germany. Soon after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his brother Emanuel established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers. On September 15, 2008, Dick Fuld, the last CEO of L ...Show more
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