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In banana cultures, john soluri brings the banana and its importance to the forefront. A lively, interdisciplinary history of why the banana became americas most popular fresh fruit and how its popularity has. He chose to focus on this part of honduras as it is estimated that between 18701950 honduras exported the most bananas worldwide. Linking the production and consumption of export bananas, 18001980.
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