Notes Chapter 2
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. what is now Costa Rica: Carl Sauer, The Early Spanish Main (Berke-
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3. all bananas are imported: National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS), “Noncitrus Fruits and Nuts 0 4 Preliminary Summary,” US
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6. consume ten thousand bananas: Dan Koeppel, Banana: The Fate of
the Fruit That Changed the World (New York: Hudson Street Press, 008 ), xi.
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