The company they kept : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.