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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
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Migrant agricultural laborers > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions.
United Fruit Company > Employees > 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.
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) > Social conditions.
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) > Economic conditions.
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
  • Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s
  • Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s
  • Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.