In this work the indigenous wars of southern Central America are rebuilt during the period of contact with the Spanish, based on sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It analyzes the capture of prisoners and slavery in pre-Hispanic and colonia..

This book is intended to make a photographic memory of various aspects of the city of San Jose in the twentieth century. Therefore, in the work shown photographs from 1900 to 1960. This sample corresponds to the photographs that participated in a con..

Several authors study the history of poverty in Costa Rica seventeenth century to 1950; from their political, economic and sociocultural in the present to the features of social representation structure and consequences. Throughout history, philanthr..

This book contains the papers presented during the symposium "Spaces, power, economy and social relations in Central America and the Caribbean". It is divided into five parts: historical research and documentary sources, economy and space, power and ..

The first edition of the Cuadernos Series History of Institutions of Costa Rica consists of texts containing the basic themes of the course syllabus Costa Rica History of institutions. ..

Este libro explora de una forma totalmente novedosa la Costa Rica de la década de 1940, y da nuevas e impresionantes pistas para entender por qué se produjo la guerra civil de 1948...

This paper analyzes the institutions established by the Spaniards to impose their political domination in Costa Rica. And cocoa production in the Valley of Matina and export to the Dutch colony of Curacao, Jamaica and the English exports to Panama mu..

This book brings together the contributions presented at the First Seminar on Costa Rican Historiography, XIX-XXI centuries, held at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Costa Rica from September 22 to 24, 2010...