The Company They Kept
Subtitle: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780807854068
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Gender Studies; Immigration & emigration; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Costa Rica; United Fruit Company; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Puerto Limon; History: World; Anthropology - Cultural; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; bananas; cocoa; manila hemp; workplace violence; adoption; Women; Social conditions; Emigration & Immigration; Blacks; Migrant agricultural laborers; Puerto Limâon
First sentence: Distant markets and local initiative have long set goods and people in motion around the western edge of the Caribbean Sea.