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The Saints of Progress : A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity /
"This work narrates the development of a historically remote--although internationally celebrated--coffee-growing region from the early 19th century through to the first decade of the 21st century. It considers the nation-building process from the margins to question traditional scholarly works...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Tarraz: a place, a coffee, and a people
- Tarraz's founding and settlement
- Coffee, downward mobility, and political power in Tarraz
- Maintaining the order: gender, class, state authority, and violence
- Revolt in Tarraz
- The civil war and its consequences
- Migration and shifting class, racial, and national identities
- National belonging and exclusion beyond Costa Rica's borders
- Conclusion: Costa Rica's Cold War exceptionalism.