![]() ![]() Unlike Citizen Coke, however, Soluri highlighted the importance of American advertising and the role that characters such as Chiquita Banana played in making the banana desirable. 5) Despite being about bananas, this book reminded me of Citizen Coke because it focused on the transnational aspect of American consumption. By writing about Honduras, he identifies the book as an attempt “to put the agriculture back into banana plantation history,” and includes a lot of material on the diseases that impacted banana growth and the impacts these diseases had on the industry and the people who kept it alive. 3) He compares the banana industry’s supply side in Honduras and consumers driving demand in America. ![]() Soluri wrote that this book was designed to “explore the dynamic relationship between mass production and mass consumption that drove, both directly and indirectly, environmental and social change on the North Coast” of Honduras. For my final paper, I read John Soluri’s book Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. I’ll be writing my historiography on the ways in which environmental historians have engaged with food as a means of talking about consumption. ![]()
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