Cold war paradise : settlement, culture, and identity-making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica, 1945-1980 /

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"Atalia Shragai examines the motivations for immigration, patterns of movement, settlements, and processes of identity-making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica from post-World War II to the late 1970s"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shragai, Atalia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Counterculture > Costa Rica > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > Costa Rica > Social life and customs > 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
Identity (Psychology) > Costa Rica.
Americans > Costa Rica > Interviews.
Americans > Costa Rica > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Contre-culture > Costa Rica > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY / Latin America / Central America.
National characteristics, American
Immigrants > Social life and customs
Emigration and immigration
Counterculture
Civilization
Americans > Social life and customs
Americans
Costa Rica > Civilization > 20th century.
Costa Rica > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Costa Rica
Interviews
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Crossroads : the movement of individuals within the sociopolitical context
  • Places and networks : settlement, community-building, and identity-making
  • From cowboys to the guardians of Eden : identity work in Costa Rican nature
  • Becoming a U.S. woman in Costa Rica : gender, immigration, and transnationalism
  • Material culture on the move : things and meanings between the United States and Costa Rica
  • Looking back in amazement : negotiating identities as privileged immigrants.

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