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Putnam, Lara.

The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / [electronic resource] : Lara Putnam. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002. - xii, 303 p. : ill., maps.

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 -- Compa�neros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Corporate Names:
United Fruit Company--Employees--Social conditions.--Costa Rica--Puerto Lim�on

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Migrant agricultural laborers--Social conditions.--Costa Rica--Puerto Lim�on
Women--Social conditions.--Costa Rica--Puerto Lim�on
Blacks--Social conditions.--Costa Rica--Puerto Lim�on
Sex role--History.--Costa Rica--Puerto Lim�on
Power (Social sciences)--History.--Costa Rica--Puerto Lim�on

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Puerto Lim�on (Costa Rica)--Social conditions.
Puerto Lim�on (Costa Rica)--Economic conditions.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD1531.C8 / P88 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3/6/097286109034