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The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Putnam, Lara.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
Subjects:
United Fruit Company > Employees > Costa Rica > Puerto Limon > Social conditions.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Costa Rica > Puerto Limon > Social conditions.
Women > Costa Rica > Puerto Limon > Social conditions.
Blacks > Costa Rica > Puerto Limon > Social conditions.
Sex role > Costa Rica > Puerto Limon > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Costa Rica > Puerto Limon > History.
Puerto Limon (Costa Rica) > Social conditions.
Puerto Limon (Costa Rica) > Economic conditions.
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Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica
  • Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s
  • Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s
  • Companeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s
  • Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s
  • Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.

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