[PDF] History Of Central America eBook

Author : Lynn V. Foster
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1438108230

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Presents a comprehensive history of Central America, including the early pre-Columbian cultures and economic challenges currently being faced.

Author : Hector Perez-Brignoli
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 1989-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520909762

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This is the first interpretive history of Central America by a Central American historian to be published in English. Anyone with an interest in current events in the region will find here an insightful and well-written guide to the history of its five national states—Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Traces of a common past invite us to make generalizations about the region, even to posit the idea of a Central American nation. But, as Hector Perez-Brignoli shows us, we can learn more from a comparative approach that establishes both the points of convergence and the separate paths taken by the five different countries of Central America. The author offers a concise overview of the region's history from the sixteenth century to the present, beginning with human and cultural geography in the first chapter and ending with the present crisis in the last. He deals with the fundamental themes and problems of the area: the characteristics of the colonial heritage, independence and the crisis of the Federal Republic, the formation of nation-states during the nineteenth century, and the development of export agriculture based on coffee and bananas. The narrative moves finally into the twentieth century to look at the growing impoverishment that multiplies inequalities and leads to the shipwreck of liberal democracy. The case of Costa Rica, exceptional in more ways than one, receives special attention.

Author : Edelberto Torres Rivas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1477306943

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First published in Chile in 1969 as Interpretación del desarrollo social centroamericano, this classic is now available in English. The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s. Using a dependency framework, but not limited by it, Torres Rivas describes the various divisions of Central American society and their evolution within the liberal development model that has been so much a part of the past century of Central American economic history. The book is compelling in its explanation of the relationship between foreign and native elements in the social development of the region. Torres Rivas describes and analyzes the resulting long-term problems this development has posed for Central America. With a new chapter added for the English edition, History and Society in Central America remains vital for readers interested in the region.

Author : Thomas L. Pearcy
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : History
ISBN :

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Presents a comprehensive history of Central America beginning with the early native civilizations, European conquest, Spanish rule, and the development of independent nations.

Author : Anthony G. Coates
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300080650

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Describes the cultural and natural history of Central America, covering such topics as the area's geological origins, natural corridors, native peoples, and conservation efforts.

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780353443143

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