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Historical Sources in Costa Rica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Richard J. Junkins
Richard J. Junkins*
Affiliation:
University of Florida
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Costa Rica has received greater attention from scholars in recent years than in the past. The nation's relative tranquility and stability compared with its neighbors continue to attract the attention of historians and social scientists seeking explanations for Costa Rican exceptionalism. The following summary of the main domestic sources of materials for studying the history of Costa Rica is presented in the hope of encouraging further research.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , 1988 , pp. 117 - 127
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 by Latin American Research Review

Footnotes

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The author wishes to acknowledge the helpful contributions of Professor Lowell Gudmundson, one of the referees of this article. He also thanks David Bushnell, Jeremy Stahl, and the editors of this journal for their criticisms. Some of the research was made possible by a Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant provided through the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

References

Notes

1. León Fernández, Documentos para la historia de Costa Rica, 10 vols. (San José, Costa Rica: Imprenta Nacional, 1881–1907).

2. Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes, Centenario 1881–1981 Archivo Nacional (San José: Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes, 1981).

3. The first scholar to use the Lara y Chamorro materials was Lowell Gudmundson, who subsequently published Hacendados, politicos y precaristas: la ganadería y el latifundismo guanacasteco, 1800-1950 (San José: 1983).

4. The Archivo Nacional de Costa Rica, telephone numbers 33–5754 and 33–5597, is located at Avenida 4, Calles 7 y 9, in San José. There are no public elevators.

5. The national library is located on Avenida 3, Calles 7 y 9, telephone numbers 21–2436 and 21–2479. There are public elevators as well as stairs.

6. See Ricardo Blanco Segura, Historia eclesiástica de Costa Rica (San José: Imprenta Nacional, 1967), Monseñor Sanabria (San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 1967), Lo que el Obispo Juzgare (San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 1981), and Obispos, arzobispos y representantes de la Santa Sede en Costa Rica (San José: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1984).

7. The curia is a one-story building next to the cathedral, on Avenida 2, Calles 0 y 1, telephone number 33–6029.

8. The Asamblea is located in front of the Costa Rican Museo Nacional on Avenida 0, at Calles 7 y 9. There is no public elevator. Permission to use these facilities may be obtained from the Secretaría de la Asamblea Legislativa by calling 23–0044; the library extensions are 220 and 221.

9. The Ministry is located at Avenida 7, Calles 11 y 11–b, in the historic Casa Amarilla. The archives of the ministry are found in the same building, telephone numbers 33–0522 and 33–0879. The library is one-half block to the west in the same building as the Instituto Nacional de Seguros.

10. The building has no public elevators, but staff elevators are available.

11. University of Costa Rica, Boletín de Diseminación de Información, … Historia y Geografía, 2 vols. (San Pedro Montes de Oca: Universidad de Costa Rica, 1978, 1985).

12. The Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio is located east of downtown San José in the suburb of San Pedro Montes de Oca.

13. Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Catálogo de publicaciones periódicas, 2 pts. (Heredia: UNCR, 1984). See also UNCR's Resúmenes de tesis presentadas a la Universidad Nacional, 2 vols. (Heredia: UNCR, 1984–1985).

14. The National University is located on Calle 9, Avenidas 0 y 1, and the current director of the library is Marco Tulio García Cambronero, telephone number 37–3052.