The Costa Rica reader : history, culture, politics /
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| Imprint: | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | xiv, 383 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Latin America readers Latin America readers. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5573145 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Birth of an Exception?
- Warriors and Sacred Struggle
- A Conqueror Looks on the Bright Side
- Hunting Indians
- The Execution of Pablo Presbere
- The Trial of Pablo Presbere, Cacique of Suinse
- A Slave's Story
- Free Blacks, Mulattoes, and Mestizos Seek Legitimacy
- Brotherhood of the Virgin
- Life and Labor in the Central Valley, circa 1821
- The Fall of Morazan
- Libelous Pornography from 1841
- Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley, 1750-1850
- II. Coffee Nation
- Privatization of the Land and Agrarian Conflict
- Tico Sweepstakes
- Witness to Heroism
- Holidays in Costa Rica, 1858
- Denunciation of the Lazarene Brothers
- Building Civilization
- Getting to Know the Unknown Soldier
- The Burning of the Meson
- III. Popular Culture and Social Policy
- Alleyway of Open Wounds
- Women of the Barrio
- A District Laboratory in Costa Rica
- Autobiography of a Shoemaker
- Maternity
- Prospectus
- The Red Door
- Banana Strike Confidential
- Notice to West Indian Farmers!
- Woman in Window
- A Governor and a Man Faces the Social Problem
- IV. Democratic Enigma
- Petition for Recognition of Voting Rights from a Humble Citizen, 1859
- The Night of San Florencio
- An Outsider's View of Political Society in 1914
- Democrats and Feminists
- Women's Vote-the Day That They Get It
- Hail to the Jefe
- Unlikely Threesome
- The Polarization of Politics, 1932-1948
- Memories of Girlhood in '48
- Democracy on the Brink: The First Figueres Presidency
- V. The Costa Rican Dream
- Means and Ends for a Better Costa Rica
- In Defense of the Corner Store
- A Costa Rican Godfather
- Growing Up in the Dream
- Alcoa No!
- The Crisis: 1980-1982
- The Family
- Imperial Eagle versus Peace Dove
- A Dictionary of Costa Rican Patriotism
- VI. Other Cultures and Outer Reaches
- Indigenous Figure
- Dispossessed
- West Indian Limon
- Our Blood Is Blackening
- Everyday Racism, 1932
- My Mother and the Seawall
- The Devil and Don Chico
- Passing: Nicaraguans in Costa Rica
- Taking Care of Sibo's Gifts
- VII. Working Paradise
- A Community Takes Care of Its Environs
- Caffeinated Miasmas
- Migration and the Costa Rican Environment since 1900
- From Rain Forest to Banana Plantation: A Workers' Eye View
- Pesticides and Parakeets in the Banana Industry
- The River of Milk
- La Loca de Gandoca
- VIII. Tropical Soundings
- Social Development with Limited Resources
- Visit Beautiful Costa Rica
- Corruption
- The Contemporary Protest Movement
- The Narcotizing of Costa Rican Politics
- Citizens 2000
- On the Recent Protests against the Privatization of the Costa Rican Hydroelectric Company (ICE)
- Building Your Own Home
- Men in Crisis?
- Are the Kids Alright?
- Costa Rica: A Millennial Profile
- Demoperfectocracy
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Acknowledgment of Copyrights
- Index
