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The Costa Rica Reader
Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictatorship and revolution; the ecological mecca of a biosphere laid waste by deforestation and urban blight; and an egalitarian, middle-class society blissfully immune to the violent class and racial conflicts that have haunted the region. Arguing that conceptions of Costa Rica as a happy anomaly downplay its rich heritage and diverse population, The Costa Rica Reader brings together texts and artwork that reveal the complexity of the country’s past and present. It characterizes Costa Rica as a site of alternatives and possibilities that undermine...
7 mejores cuentos de Ricardo Fernández Guardia
La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española. Ricardo Fernández Guardia fue un escritor, político y diplomático costarricense. Cultivador y seguidor de lo mejor de la tradición literaria española y francesa, Fernández Guardia se identifica hoy con el nacimiento del realismo literario y del teatro costarricense, con una obra merecedora del puesto de primer autor clásico de Costa Rica. Este libro contiene los siguientes cuentos: El cuarto de hora. El manantial. Lolita. El derviche. La princesa Lulú. Tapaligüi. ¿Neurosis?
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Crisis in Costa Rica
The Costa Rican revolution of 1948 capped an extended period of social tension and political unrest. This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940–1948 that led to a successful armed uprising. A secondary and related theme is the role of José Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement sufficiently cohesive to seize and hold power. In the 1940s the Communists, the Social Democrats (forerunners of the National Liberation Party), and the followers of Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia within the traditional National Republican party competed to lead the middle sector’s demand for modernization. Most accounts of this period have presented the Calderón regime as aristocratic ...
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Prior to 1870, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers. After that date, the current name was adopted.
