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The company they kept : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
- Title
- The company they kept : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / Lara Putnam.
- Author
- Putnam, Lara.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 303 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Women > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions
- Blacks > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions
- Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) > Social conditions
- Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) > Economic conditions
- Power (Social sciences) > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > History
- United Fruit Company Employees > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions
- Sex role > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > History
- Migrant agricultural laborers > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JHE 02-955
- ISBN
- 0807827320 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807854069 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002001552
- OCLC
- 49031825
- Author
- Putnam, Lara.
- Title
- The company they kept : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / Lara Putnam.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JHE 02-955