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Putnam, Lara.

The company they kept : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / Lara Putnam. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002. - xii, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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

ISBN: 0807827320 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854069 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2002001552

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United Fruit Company--Employees--Social conditions.--Costa Rica--Puerto Limón

Subjects--Chronological Terms: --1870 - 1960

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

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)--Social conditions.
Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)--Economic conditions.

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

Dewey Class. No.: 306.360.972.861 / P993c