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Author Putnam, Lara.

Title The company they kept [electronic resource] : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / Lara Putnam.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 303 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography 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 -- Companeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807827320 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807854069 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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