Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
23 - Costa Rica
from VII - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
A pioneering general interpretation of Costa Rica that considers the country’s development from a variety of perspectives is Samuel Stone, La dinastía de los conquistadores (San José, C.R., 1975); Eng. trans., The Heritage of the Conquistadores: Ruling Classes in Central America from the Conquest to the Sandinistas (Lincoln, Nebr., 1990). The same broad approach is also adopted in the excellent studies written by Carolyn Hall: El café y el desarrollo histórico-geográfuo de Costa Rica (San José, C. R., 1976) and Costa Rica: Una interpretación geográfica con perspectiva histórica (San José, C.R., 1984). Other general interpretative surveys include José L. Vega, Orden y progreso: La formación del estado national en Costa Rica (San José, C.R., 1975), Poder politico y democracia en Costa Rica (San José, 1982), and Hacia una interpretación del desarrollo costarricense: Ensayo sociológico (San José, C.R., 1983); Carlos Meléndez’s more dated Costa Rica: Evolución de sus problemas más destacados (San José, C.R., 1953); Wilburg Jiménez, Génesis del gobierno de Costa Rica, 1821–1981 (San José, C.R., 1986), which concentrates upon administrative issues; and Chester Zelaya (ed.), Costa Rica contemporánea (San José, C.R., 1979), a collection of provocative essays by, among others, Carlos Meléndez, Oscar Arias, Gonzalo Facio and Eduardo Lizano. The perspective of the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) is reflected in Carlos Monge, Historia de Costa Rica (San José, C.R., 1962); Eugenio Rodríguez, Apuntes para una sociología costarricense (San José, C.R., 1953); and Hugo Navarro, La generatión del 48: Juicio histórico sobre la democracia costarricense (Mexico, D.F., 1957). For a rigorously Marxist interpretation, see Reinaldo Carcanholo, Desarrollo del capitalismo en Costa Rica (San José, C.R., 1981).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 703 - 712Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995