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from VII - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
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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