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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Lara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant agricultural laborers--Costa Rica--Puerto Limon--Social conditions.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Women--Costa Rica--Puerto Limon--Social conditions.

Women.

Black people--Costa Rica--Puerto Limon--Social conditions.

Black people.

Sex role--Costa Rica--Puerto Limon--History.

Sex role.

Power (Social sciences)--Costa Rica--Puerto Limon--History.

Power (Social sciences).

Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)--Social conditions.

Puerto Limón (Costa Rica).

Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)--Economic conditions.

United Fruit Company--Employees--Costa Rica--Puerto Limon--Social conditions.

United Fruit Company.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.

ISBN:

9798890875365

9780807862230

0807862231

OCLC:

476237349