Costa Rica Reader - History, Culture, Politics

Informationen zum Autor Steven Palmer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Windsor in Ontario. He is the author of From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940 (published by Duke University Press).Iván Molina is Professor of History at the University of Costa Rica in San José. He is a coauthor of Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica. Klappentext An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English. Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I. Birth of an Exception? 9 II. Coffee Nation 55 III. Popular Culture and Social Policy 99 IV. Democratic Enigma 139 V. The Costa Rican Dream 183 VI. Other Cultures and Outer Reaches 229 VII. Working Paradise 275 VIII. Tropical Soundings 319 Suggestions for Further Reading 367 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 373 Index 379

Product details

• Authors: Palmer, Steven (EDT)/ Molina Jimenez Palmer, Steven Molina Palmer
• Assisted by: Ivan Molina (Editor), Iván Molina (Editor), Steven Palmer (Editor), Steven Paul Palmer (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2004
• EAN: 9780822333869
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3386-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Latin America Readers; The Latin America Readers
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Costa Rica, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte