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The Ticos
The authors trace the evolution of Costa Rican culture and institutions from pre-Columbian times through the late 1990s. Particularly concerned with the change wrought by the economic crisis of the 1980s, they base their portrayal on interviews with Costa Ricans; observations of many facets--from coffee plantation work to the deliberations of the Legislature; and readings of journalists, essayists, poets, historians, and others. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Stuffing the Ballot Box
Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century. Lehoucq and Molina draw upon a unique database of more than 1,300 accusations of ballot-rigging to show that parties denounced fraud where electoral laws made the struggle for power more competitive. They explain how institutional arrangements generated opportunities for executives to assemble legislative coalitions to enact far-reaching reforms. This book also argues that nonpartisan commissions should run elections and explains why splitting responsibility over election affairs between the executive and the legislature is a recipe for partisan rancour and political conflict. Stuffing the Ballot Box will interest a broad array of political and social scientists, constitutional scholars, historians, election specialists and policy-makers interested in electoral fraud and institutional reform.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
Regional Voices in the Geo-Politics of Mexico and Central America, 1959-2019
This book is a collective work published as part of a larger project titled "Mexico-Guatemala cross-border region; regional dimensions and bases for integrated development," the purpose of which is to introduce a series of issues relative to the geopolitical dimension of Mexico’s actions in Central America and its stance on conflicts in the region between 1959 and 2019. The most widely published texts up until now have been written by Mexican authors, and we have less insight into how these processes have been viewed from Central America. With that in mind, we brought together a group of specialists, each highly renowned in their own country, some of them academics and others whose account...
Las sufragistas de Costa Rica
En Las sufragistas de Costa Rica, Macarena Barahona Riera recoge detalladamente, con documentos y fotografías ilustrativas, la historia del voto femenino en el país.
Lo real y lo imaginario. Ensayos literarios
Luis Barahona reivindica una Costa Rica con pensamiento de identidad. Nos lleva a través de su vívida prosa, a las márgenes del discurso donde convergen lo imaginario y lo real. Allí nos encontramos con el ideario de Mario Sancho, Pío Víquez, Víctor Manuel Sanabria y Manuel de Jesús Jiménez; con las reflexiones acerca de la paz, las ideas estéticas, la picaresca y el idealismo del Quijote. Animado por la idiosincracia de un Cartago y una Costa Rica todavía iluminados por el pensamiento hispanoamericano, como confluencia filosófica, nos deja el valor de hechos y personalidades que mantienen su capacidad de discernimiento y asombro característicos del vitalismo y con los que se ha construido la nación.
La construcción multiétnica del pueblo de Costa Rica
Esta obra es multiétnica y pluricultural, tanto en su contenido como en su autoría, en la medida en que fue escrita en su gran mayoría por los descendientes de poblaciones migrantes.
Ni miel ni hojuelas
"Tan diversos como sus autoras, los textos recogidos aquí tienen en común el mismo reclamo por lo que se nos estafa y lo que se nos mezquinea; por las triquiñuelas que hemos venido descubriendo discurso a discurso, casi absolutamente por todos los caminos del arte y la cultura", Yadira Calvo.
Historia de la Editorial Costa Rica (1959-2023)
El esmero de destacados intelectuales, artistas y políticos dio como resultado la creación de la Editorial Costa Rica (ECR) en 1959, un evento que simboliza el reconocimiento por parte del Estado de la cultura escrita como un pilar del desarrollo nacional. Su establecimiento refleja un compromiso con la democratización del acceso a la lectura y el apoyo a una literatura que dialoga con las inquietudes y esperanzas de la sociedad costarricense. El 65 aniversario de la Editorial es un momento para reflexionar sobre los logros pasados y para mirar hacia el futuro con optimismo. La institución se encuentra en una posición única para continuar su misión de fomentar la cultura y la literatura en Costa Rica, adaptándose a los nuevos desafíos y aprovechando las oportunidades que el futuro pueda ofrecer. La historia de la ECR es, entonces, un recordatorio poderoso de la importancia de la cultura en la construcción y preservación de nuestra identidad social y cultural.
