Author: International Bureau of the American RepublicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: International Bureau of the American RepublicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics
Author: Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Report of Transactions ... & of the Surveys & Explorations ... in Central & South America, 1891-98: pt. 1. Condensed report. 1891-98
Author: Intercontinental Railway CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Boletín Mensual de la Oficina de Las Repúblicas Americanas, Inion Internacional de Repúblicas Americanas
Author: The Company They Kept
Author: Lara PutnamPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807827320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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 Limn, 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.
Bulletin
Author: Railroaders without Borders
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253018072
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
For over 25 years, the creatively led Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has rejuvenated a series of down-and-out and even defunct railroads. Launched in 1987 by Henry Posner III, this investment and management company has demonstrated that it is possible both to have a conscience and to earn a profit in today's railroad industry. With ventures on four continents, RDC has created an admirable record of long-term commitments, respect for local cultures, and protection of the public interest. H. Roger Grant presents a firsthand look at this unique business operation and its triumphs and disappointments.
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Author: Intercontinental Railway CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Analyses and Projections of Economic Development
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description