The company they keptmigrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960Putnam, Lara.creatorPutnam, Lara.textbibliographyncuChapel HillUniversity of North Carolina Pressc20022002monographicengxii, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.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.Lara Putnam.Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.nccr---United Fruit CompanyEmployeesCosta RicaPuerto LimónSocial conditions
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