| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United Fruit Company -- Employees -- Social conditions.
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United Fruit Company. |
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Employees. |
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Social conditions. |
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United Fruit Company. -- Employees -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions. |
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United fruit Company. |
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United Fruit Company. |
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.
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Migrant agricultural laborers. |
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Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón. |
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Women -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Black people -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.
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Black people. |
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Sex role -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- History.
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Sex role. |
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History. |
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Power (Social sciences) -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- History.
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) -- Social conditions.
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Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) -- Economic conditions.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1870-1960. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Puerto Limón.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Putnam, Lara. Company they kept. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002 (DLC) 2002001552 (OCoLC)49031825 |
| ISBN |
0807862231 (electronic book) |
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9780807862230 (electronic book) |
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0807827320 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807827321 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807854069 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807854068 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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