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Bananas - How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman
22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Jungle Capitalists : A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Capitalism by Peter Chapman
26.95 AUD
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
Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain by Peter Chapman
40.99 AUD
Category: Sport | 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
19.95 AUD
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
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