King of the gunrunners : how a Philadelphia fruit importer inspired a revolution and provoked the Spanish-American war
"By the time he turned thirty at the end of the nineteenth century, John D. Hart thrived as the busiest importer of bananas on the East Coast. A master of ships with a thunderous voice, Hart aggressively carried tropical fruit to an insatiable market with little concern for notions of supply an...
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University Press of Mississippi
2024
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