...This chapter traces the entangled history of labor migration and immigration restriction in the Greater Caribbean’s Spanish-speaking republics (especially Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic) and British colonies (especially Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados...

...From the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Amazon to the windswept lands of Tierra del Fuego, this book discusses natural settings within contemporary Latin American novels as they depict key moments of environmental change or crisis in the region from nineteenth-century imperialism to the present...

... in cacao-related practices between these regions. This chapter summarizes the major ethnohistoric accounts of Nicaragua and Costa Rica on their cacao use and production. The chapter also discusses the archaeological evidence of cacao use in Greater Nicoya and examines the problem of the existence of small...

...This chapter looks at Costa Rican texts which pick up the story of Latin American environmental history in the mid- to late twentieth century as the republics of the isthmus embraced agricultural export economies and neoliberal policies associated with globalization. It explores three Costa Rica...

... to the analysis of Consuelo Cruz which contrasts the experience of Nicaragua and Costa Rica in this domain. In her work, Cruz draws attention to the distinct processes of these two isthmus societies through the analysis of the rhetorical frames that were constructed, a process that started in colonial times...

... identity—including the authorship of the official Costa Rican national anthem. Costa Rica —and counterculture Workers Colonialism Guatemala Health Nicaragua Palmer Steven Peasants Rojas Gladys —and libraries Oliva Medina Mario San José Costa Rica Bakunin Mikhail Brenes Mesén Roberto Chile...

...This chapter discusses tico socialism of Costa Rica, which emerged shortly after the coffee economy arrived during the latter part of the nineteenth century. This new economy in Costa Rica allowed the elites to dominate the country even further. The chapter notes that the term “tico” was derived...

...This book aims to provide an understanding of the transnational dynamics of Central America. This is a region that includes Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. These countries share a close geographical relationship and historical background, a geopolitical...