The company they kept [electronic resource] : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / Lara Putnam.
By: Putnam, Lara
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Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002Description: xii, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Subject(s): 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 conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 306.3/6/097286109034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.