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

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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.

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Main Author: Putnam, Lara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
United Fruit Company > Employees > Social conditions.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions.
Women > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions.
Black people > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > Social conditions.
Sex role > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Costa Rica > Puerto Limón > History.
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) > Social conditions.
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) > Economic conditions.
United Fruit Company.
Blacks > Social conditions.
Economic history.
Employees > Social conditions.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Social conditions.
Power (Social sciences)
Sex role.
Social conditions
Women > Social conditions.
Costa Rica > Puerto Limón.
History.

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Call Number: HD1531.C8 P88 2002
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