"Blue book" of Costa Rica, 1916
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Costa Rica
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Costa Rica
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Author : Jamaica
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Trinidad
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Page : 694 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Trinidad
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Vols. through 1887 include only Trinidad.
Author : Jamaica
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 1930
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Author : University of Minnesota. School of Mines and Metallurgy. Alumni Association
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 1913
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Trinidad and Tobago
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Author : Lara Putnam
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0807862231
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-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to the region. In Port Limon, birthplace of the United Fruit Company, a single building might house a Russian seamstress, a Martinican madam, a Cuban doctor, and a Chinese barkeep--together with stevedores, laundresses, and laborers from across the Caribbean. Tracing the changing contours of gender, kinship, and community in Costa Rica's plantation region, Lara Putnam explores new questions about the work of caring for children and men and how it fit into the export economy, the role of kinship as well as cash in structuring labor, the social networks that shaped migrants' lives, and the impact of ideas about race and sex on the exercise of power. Based on sources that range from handwritten autobiographies to judicial transcripts and addressing topics from intimacy between prostitutes to insults between neighbors, the book illuminates the connections between political economy, popular culture, and everyday life.
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : Sarita Eastman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475993080
As a five year old girl in her native Costa Rica - a country which, in the early 20th century, had neither a medical school nor a tradition of higher education for women - Anita Figueredo decided to become a doctor. She was supported in this quest by her courageous mother, and thus begins a spirited, lifelong adventure in service that includes a nearly 40 year friendship with Mother Teresa. In this compelling and affectionate memoir, one of the nine children of a pioneering woman surgeon searches for the secrets of her mother's extraordinary impact on her community, which extended from "home to...hospital, school, church and town, and eventually across international borders to the regions of desperation."
Author : Jamaica
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Jamaica
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