Atalia Shragai

Cold War Paradise

Settlement, Culture, and Identity-Making Among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica, 1945-1980

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Produktbeschreibung

Atalia Shragai examines the motivations for immigration, patterns of movement, settlements, and processes of identity-making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica from post–World War II to the late 1970s.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781496230799
• ISBN-10: 1496230795
• Artikelnr.: 62316419

Autorenporträt

Atalia Shragai is a lecturer of history at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Crossroads: The Movement of Individuals within the Sociopolitical
Context
2. Places and Networks: Settlement, Community-Building, and Identity-Making
3. From Cowboys to the Guardians of Eden: Identity Work in Costa Rican
Nature
4. Becoming a U.S. Woman in Costa Rica: Gender, Immigration, and
Transnationalism
5. Material Culture on the Move: Things and Meanings between the United
States and Costa Rica
6. Looking Back in Amazement: Negotiating Identities as Privileged
Immigrants
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index