This book reproduces the class notes of Rodrigo Facio Brenes for his course Economic Doctrines, at the School of Economic and Social Sciences in Universidad de Costa Rica. The work collects his thinking, as well as comments on the most outstanding..

Through over a hundred oral accounts and thousands of archival sources, the autor analyzes the historical development of Costa Rica in the Valley of Tarrazú, focusing on coffee harvesting. Tha autor highlights..

Historical novel that deals with the arrival of Hernán Cortés and the Spanish conquerors in Mexico, the way in which the conquest developed and how they consummated it, all from the perspective of the vanquished.The conquest of Mexico is one of the m..

Esta obra señala diversos tópicos de las costumbres e historia que su autor, Rodrigo Salazar Salvatierra, ha compartido durante varios años de investigación en los pueblos indígenas de Costa Rica. Patrones de comportamiento, así como la música, la da..

El héroe de la discordia incorpora una perspectiva múltiple, que por vez primera integra la historia, la historiografía, la literatura y la memoria...

This study analyzes the place names of the road network of the Greater Metropolitan Area, to verify the linguistic habits of the speakers of the region and their relationship with historical events and cultural features...

Analysis on evasion, avoidance, and non-payment of taxes and deception in the press, among many other topics..

The situation of women before the Ecclesiastical Court in the eighteenth century presents cases of cruelty, discrimination, marginalization, submission to patriarchal canons and legal instances. In the Costa Rica of the XXI century, the issue is stil..