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

• Autore: Putnam Lara
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/6/097286109034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) Social conditions; Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) Economic conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The company they kept
• ISBN: 979-88-908753-6-5; 0-8078-6223-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780366803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II