(PDF) The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity Writen - Carmen Kordick
The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity
A reshaping of traditional understandings of Costa Rica and its national identity ?The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity chronicles the development of the Tarraz? Valley, a historically remote?although internationally celebrated?coffee-growing region. Carmen Kordick?s work traces the development of this region from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century to consider the nation-building process from the margins, while also questioning traditional scholarly works that have reproduced, rather than deconstructed, Costa Rica?s exceptionalist national mythology, which hail Costa Rica as Central America?s ?white,? democratic, nonviolent, and egalitarian republic. ? In this compelling political, economic, and lived history, Kordick suggests that Costa Rica?s exceptionalist and egalitarian mythology emerged during the Cold War, as revolution, civil war, military dictatorship, and state violence plagued
Product details: The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity
Author : Carmen Kordick
Pages : 296 pages
Publisher : University Alabama Press
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ISBN-10 : 0817320024
ISBN-13 : 9780817320027

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