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, 1870-1960In 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 century, short lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to the region. In Port Limon, birthplace of the United

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing (September 7

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ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1645563617

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