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

Author/creator Putnam, Lara
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Descriptionxii, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
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.
Black people--Costa Rica. --Puerto Limón. --Social conditions.
Sex role--Costa Rica. --Puerto Limón. --History.
Power (Social sciences)--Costa Rica. --Puerto Limón. --History.
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)--Social conditions.
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)--Economic conditions.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2002001552
ISBN0807827320 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807854069 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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