The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960


The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 by Lara Putnam

In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-ce

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