Costa Rica - A Global Studies Handbook (Hardcover, U S ed.)

This work is a fascinating guide to one of Latin America's most stable and progressive nations, examining the country's development, unique features, and the challenges Costa Ricans face in the 21st century. Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook offers readers an authoritative tour of a remarkable country, tracing its historical development from pre-Colombian inhabitants and Spanish colonization through rising prosperity in the mid-19th century to current struggles to define itself economically and politically. Costa Rica combines narrative chapters on the nation's history and the current state of its political, social, and cultural institutions with alphabetically organized entries covering important people, places, and events in its development. Throughout, the authors, drawing on extensive research and their own experiences, highlight the many ways Costa Rica is different from its neighbors, as well as the challenges the country faces in the 21st century's globalized world. Provides a chronology of key events in the evolution of the nation of Costa Rica from early signs of civilization over three thousand years ago through colonization and independence to the present Includes political and geographical maps with photographs of natural attractions, tropical animals and plants, and the nation's people

General

Imprint:	ABC-CLIO Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Global Studies: Latin America & the Caribbean
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	February 2008
Authors:	Meg Tyler Mitchell • Scott Pentzer
Dimensions:	161 x 237 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	367
Edition:	U S ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-85109-992-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
LSN:	1-85109-992-1
Barcode:	9781851099924

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