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Bananas - How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman
$24.99 NZD
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
Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain by Peter Chapman
$21.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
London, July 1966. Peter Chapman, a naive 18-year-old from Islington, is on the brink of adulthood. Everything is changing: having failed his A-levels and recently discovered he will not be fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer at Leyton Orient, he is just about to enter the world o ...Show more
The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008 by Peter Chapman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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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