The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
by
Putnam, Lara.
Title
:
The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
Author
:
Putnam, Lara.
ISBN
:
9780807862230
Personal Author
:
Putnam, Lara.
Publication Information
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ℗♭2002.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
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.
Abstract
:
In the 19th century, migrants from the USA, across the Caribbean and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, drawn by the established banana plantations and economic booms, creating a very mixed population. This work explores the effects of this change on gender, kinship and community.
Corporate Subject
:
United Fruit Company -- Employees -- Social conditions.
United Fruit Company. -- Employees -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.
United fruit Company.
United Fruit Company. (OCoLC)fst00529485
Subject Term
:
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.
Women -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.
Blacks -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.
Sex role -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- History.
Power (Social sciences) -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- History.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Conditions sociales.
Femmes -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Conditions sociales.
Noirs -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Conditions sociales.
RoÌ‚le selon le sexe -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Histoire.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Blacks -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00834005
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Employees -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00909211
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01020705
Power (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst01074219
Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
Immigranten.
Sociale relaties.
Arbeiter.
Saisonarbeiter.
Soziale Situation.
Geographic Term
:
Puerto LimoÌ?n (Costa Rica) -- Social conditions.
Puerto LimoÌ?n (Costa Rica) -- Economic conditions.
Puerto LimoÌ?n (Costa Rica) -- Conditions sociales.
Puerto LimoÌ?n (Costa Rica) -- Conditions eÌ?conomiques.
Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n. (OCoLC)fst01250103
Schwarze.
Genre
:
Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Puerto LimoÌ?n.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
|---|
| IYTE Library | E-Book | 635025-1001 | HD1531 .C8 P88 2002 | Online |