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Author Putnam, Lara.

Title The company they kept : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / Lara Putnam
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
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 -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s
Summary In the 19th century, migrants from the USA, across the Caribbean and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, drawn by the established banana plantations and economic booms, creating a very mixed population. This work explores the effects of this change on gender, kinship and community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index
Notes Online (ebrary)
This book purchased by ANCLAS from Dr. Barry Carr, Historian. ANU
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Subject United Fruit Company -- Employees -- Social conditions.
United Fruit Company -- Employees -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.
Women -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.
Blacks -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.
Sex role -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- History.
Power (Social sciences) -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- History.
SUBJECT Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88278698 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88278698 -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736
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LC no. 2002001552
ISBN 0807862231 electronic bk
9780807862230 electronic bk
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