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The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics

œThe Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics” is an essential introduction to Costa Rica including more than fifty texts related to the country’™s history, culture, politics, and natural environment. All texts are written by Costa Ricans, making this book a necessary resource for scholars, students, and travellers alike.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, ‘œThe 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 stereotypes about the region’™s history and challenge the idea that current dilemmas facing Latin America are inevitable or insoluble.The volume presents more than fifty newspaper accounts, histories, petitions, memoirs, poems, and essays by Costa Rican men and women, young and old, scholars, farmers, workers, and activists. Many of these texts appear here in English for the first time and they are all accompanied with images showcasing sculptures, photographs, maps, cartoons and fliers. Thus ‘œThe Costa Rica Reader” presents a panoply of voices: eloquent working-class raconteurs from San Josรฉ’™s poorest barrios, English-speaking Afro-Antilleans of the Limรณn province, Nicaraguan immigrants, factory workers, dissident members of the intelligentsia, and indigenous people struggling to preserve their culture.From the time before the arrival of the Spanish, through the rise of the coffee plantations and the Civil War of 1948, up to participation in today’™s globalized world, Costa Rica’™s remarkable history comes alive.*About the editors:**Steven Palmer* is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Windsor in Ontario.*Ivรกn Molina* is Professor of History at the University of Costa Rica in San Josรฉ.Palmer and Molina are also the co-authors of ‘œThe History of Costa Rica: Brief, Up-to-Date, and Illustrated”.

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