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- catalog abstract ""In this wide-ranging history of the most popular and least expensive fruit in the United States, Virginia Scott Jenkins shows how developments in international trade and transportation enabled banana shipments from the Caribbean to reach even the most remote North American towns. She describes how public health campaigns and marketing innovations enticed Americans to eat more and more of the fruit that came in its own "germ-free" packaging. She uses bananas to illustrate changes in diet and etiquette, shows how bananas symbolized the supposed danger or romance of the tropics, and visits the International Banana Festival in Fulton, Kentucky, which in its heyday touted banana consumption as a weapon against communism - and featured a one-ton banana pudding."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11765941.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In this wide-ranging history of the most popular and least expensive fruit in the United States, Virginia Scott Jenkins shows how developments in international trade and transportation enabled banana shipments from the Caribbean to reach even the most remote North American towns. She describes how public health campaigns and marketing innovations enticed Americans to eat more and more of the fruit that came in its own "germ-free" packaging.".
- catalog description "1 Introducing Bananas 1 -- 2 Politics and Bananas 16 -- 3 Transporting Bananas 40 -- 4 Selling Bananas 56 -- 5 Peril and Panacea 79 -- 6 Eating Bananas 101 -- 7 Celebrating Bananas 126 -- 8 Meaning of Bananas 142 -- Appendix Songs of Bananas 173.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-205) and index.".
- catalog description "She uses bananas to illustrate changes in diet and etiquette, shows how bananas symbolized the supposed danger or romance of the tropics, and visits the International Banana Festival in Fulton, Kentucky, which in its heyday touted banana consumption as a weapon against communism - and featured a one-ton banana pudding."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 210 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1560989661 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "380.1/414772/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Banana trade United States History.".
- catalog subject "Bananas Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "HD9259.B3 U537 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 Introducing Bananas 1 -- 2 Politics and Bananas 16 -- 3 Transporting Bananas 40 -- 4 Selling Bananas 56 -- 5 Peril and Panacea 79 -- 6 Eating Bananas 101 -- 7 Celebrating Bananas 126 -- 8 Meaning of Bananas 142 -- Appendix Songs of Bananas 173.".
- catalog title "Bananas : an American history / Virginia Scott Jenkins.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".