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Arizona State University - Summer 2012 | ||
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The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers) (4th Edition) by Professor Steven Palmer (Editor), Steven Paul Palmer (Editor), Iván Molina (Editor), Iván Molina Jiménez, Contributor-Steve Marquardt, Robin Kirk (Series Editor), Orin Starn (Series Editor), Sylvia Chant, Contributor-Kirk Bowman, Contributor-Uli Locher, Contributor-Juanita Sanchez, Contributor-Gloria Mayorga, Contributor-Paula Palmer Paperback, 383 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-8223-3372-4 / 0822333724 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3372-2 / 9780822333722 Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictatorship and revolution; the ecological mecca of a biosphere laid waste by deforestation and urban blight; and an egalitarian, middle-class society bliss |