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| costa rica political map: The History of Costa Rica Iván Molina Jiménez, Steven Paul Palmer, 1998 |
| costa rica political map: Political Maps Ian F. Mahaney, 2006-08-01 Explains how to read and understand a political map. |
| costa rica political map: Costa Rica After Coffee Lowell Gudmundson, 2021-10-20 Costa Rica After Coffee explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. In this follow-up to the 1986 classic Costa Rica Before Coffee, Lowell Gudmundson delves deeply into archival sources, alongside the individual histories of key coffee-growing families, to explore the development of the co-op movement, the rise of the gourmet coffee market, and the societal transformations Costa Rica has undergone as a result of the coffee industry’s powerful presence in the country. While Costa Rican coffee farmers and co-ops experienced a golden age in the 1970s and 1980s, the emergence and expansion of a gourmet coffee market in the 1990s drastically reduced harvest volumes. Meanwhile, urbanization and improved education among the Costa Rican population threatened the continuance of family coffee farms, because of the lack of both farmland and a successor generation of farmers. As the last few decades have seen a rise in tourism and other industries within the country, agricultural exports like coffee have ceased to occupy the same crucial space in the Costa Rican economy. Gudmundson argues that the fulfillment of promises of reform from the co-op era had the paradoxical effect of challenging the endurance of the coffee industry. |
| costa rica political map: Political Map of the World United States. Central Intelligence Agency, 1995 |
| costa rica political map: Different Kinds of Maps Julia J. Quinlan, 2012-01-15 What kind of map would you use to enter the exciting sport of orienteering? How about if you needed to drive from San Diego to San Francisco? Or if you wanted to see which parts of Earth are covered in taiga? This indispensable volume offers lower elementary students an introduction to the most commonly used kinds of maps. It is chock-full of examples of various sorts of maps and offers clear explanations of the advantages of each type. |
| costa rica political map: Don Pepe Charles D. Ameringer, 1978 |
| costa rica political map: Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia Jeffrey Quilter, John W. Hoopes, 2003 The lands between Mesoamerica and the Central Andes are famed for the rich diversity of ancient cultures that inhabited them. Throughout this vast region, from about AD 700 until the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion, a rich and varied tradition of goldworking was practiced. The amount of gold produced and worn by native inhabitants was so great that Columbus dubbed the last New World shores he sailed as Costa Rica—the Rich Coast. Despite the long-recognized importance of the region in its contribution to Pre-Columbian culture, very few books are readily available, especially in English, on these lands of gold. Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia now fills that gap with eleven articles by leading scholars in the field. Issues of culture change, the nature of chiefdom societies, long-distance trade and transport, ideologies of value, and the technologies of goldworking are covered in these essays as are the role of metals as expressions and materializations of spiritual, political, and economic power. These topics are accompanied by new information on the role of stone statuary and lapidary work, craft and trade specialization, and many more topics, including a reevaluation of the concept of the Intermediate Area. Collectively, the volume provides a new perspective on the prehistory of these lands and includes articles by Latin American scholars whose writings have rarely been published in English. |
| costa rica political map: Costa Rica - Culture Smart! Jane Koutnik, Culture Smart!, 2012-10-01 Costa Rica is renowned for its tropical beauty, the warmth and charm of the Ticos—its people's own name for themselves—and its political stability. This Switzerland of the Americas is widely regarded as an oasis of democracy in turbulent Central America. Since the first edition of Culture Smart! Costa Rica was published in 2005, however, there have been some important changes and, with rapid economic development, some growing pains. Over the past few years there has been a movement of population to the towns of the Central Valley. Higher education is now the norm for young Ticos, and the middle class has expanded—but so has the gap between rich and poor. Tourism took a dive after the 2009 recession, and the national debt has grown, while the arrival of multinationals and significant Chinese investment has been welcomed. Unemployment has risen, people are prepared to go on strike more readily, and there is a general disillusionment with politicians. In the face of mounting difficulties the Ticos remain remarkably peaceable, relaxed, and fun-loving. Their enthusiasm for life is seen as much in their passion for soccer as in their demonstrations in support of human and political rights. Culture Smart! Costa Rica explores and explains the complex human realities of modern Costa Rican life. Armed with this information, you will be better equipped to understand your hosts and to enjoy your visit to this beguiling and beautiful country to the full. |
| costa rica political map: Costa Rican Government and Politics Paul G. Stephenson, 1970 |
| costa rica political map: The Costa Rican Women's Movement Ilse Abshagen Leitinger, 2014-08-12 This reader reflects the genesis, scope, and direction of women’s activism in a single Latin American country. It collects the voices of forty-one diverse women who live in Costa Rica, some radical, others strongly conservative, and most ranging inbetween, as they write about their lives, their problems, their aspirations. Unlike the comparative studies of women’s issues that look at several different countries, the reader provides an insider’s view of one small, but quintessentially Latin American, society. These women write of their own experience in organizing and working for change within the Costa Rican community. Some represent groups fitting into traditional “women’s movement” that wants to improve certain aspects of women’s and families’ daily lives. Still others, the “feminists,” argue forcefully that true improvement requires a profound change of power relations in society, of women’s access to power and decision making. The articles are organized into thematic groups that range from the definitions of Feminism in Costa Rica to women in Costa Rican history, women’s legal equality, discrimination against women, and the status of Women’s Studies. The brief biographies that identify each author underscore the leadership of Costa Rican women in Latin American Feminism. The founders and editors of Mujer, one of the most influential Feminist journals in Latin America, are among the authors represented in the reader. The audience for this book will include specialists interested in Latin America, in women in Latin America, and in the international women’s movement. |
| costa rica political map: Maps of Costa Rica Albert Earl Palmerlee, 1965 |
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| costa rica political map: Fact Sheet: Costa Rica United States. Foreign Operations Administration, 1955 |
| costa rica political map: COSTA RICA NARAYAN CHANGDER, 2023-01-08 THE COSTA RICA MCQ (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) SERVES AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AIMING TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS, CLASS TESTS, QUIZ COMPETITIONS, AND SIMILAR ASSESSMENTS. WITH ITS EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MCQS, THIS BOOK EMPOWERS YOU TO ASSESS YOUR GRASP OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AND YOUR PROFICIENCY LEVEL. BY ENGAGING WITH THESE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND LAY A SOLID FOUNDATION. DIVE INTO THE COSTA RICA MCQ TO EXPAND YOUR COSTA RICA KNOWLEDGE AND EXCEL IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, OR PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, MAKING IT EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO VERIFY THEIR ANSWERS AND PREPARE EFFECTIVELY. |
| costa rica political map: Hostile Acts Martha Honey, 1994 In January 1989, Costa Rica charged CIA operative John Hull with the crime of 'hostile acts.' Hull was accused of contravening the country's policy of unarmed neutrality by using Costa Rican territory to run the contra war against neighboring Nicaragua. Sadly, the term 'hostile acts' seems appropriate to describe the overall impact of U.S. policies on Costa Rica during the 1980's. |
| costa rica political map: West Indians of Costa Rica Ronald N. Harpelle, 2001 Harpelle (history, Lakehead U.) examines the migration of Caribbean people of African descent to the Hispanic-dominated, white-settler society of Costa Rica from 1900 to 1950, and the gradual ethnic transformation of this group into Afro-Costa Ricans. Coverage includes the expansion of the Costa Rican banana industry and the rise of the West Indian labor force; the emergence of the young Jamaican activist, Marcus Garvey; the post-WWI period of heightened unrest; attempts by Costa Rican governments, organizations and individuals to destroy the West Indian community; the eventual integration of West Indians into Costa Rican society in the 1940s and early-1950s; and the eventual formation of the Afro-Costa Rican identity. Distributed in the US by Cornell University Services. c. Book News Inc. |
| costa rica political map: The "Greening" of Costa Rica Ana Isla, 2015-02-05 Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of “green industries” from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In The “Greening” of Costa Rica, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist’s rejection of physical limits to growth, the biologist’s fetish with such limits, and the indebtedness of peripheral countries. Isla’s case study is the 250,000 hectare Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area, created in the late 1990s as the result of Canada-Costa Rica debt-for-nature swaps. Rather than reducing poverty and creating equality, development in and around the conservation area has dispossessed and disenfranchised subsistence farmers, expropriating their land, water, knowledge, and labour. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets such as carbon credits, intellectual property, cash crops, open-pit mining, and eco-tourism, few of whose benefits flow to the local population. |
| costa rica political map: Freedom in the World 2006 Freedom House, 2006 Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 192 countries and a group of select territories are used by policy makers, the media, international corporations, and civic activists and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. Press accounts of the survey findings appear in hundreds of influential newspapers in the United States and abroad and form the basis of numerous radio and television reports. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development. |
| costa rica political map: Costa Rica Meg Tyler Mitchell Ph.D., Scott Pentzer Ph.D., 2008-02-21 This work is a fascinating guide to one of Latin America's most stable and progressive nations, examining the country's development, unique features, and the challenges Costa Ricans face in the 21st century. Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook offers readers an authoritative tour of a remarkable country, tracing its historical development from pre-Colombian inhabitants and Spanish colonization through rising prosperity in the mid-19th century to current struggles to define itself economically and politically. Costa Rica combines narrative chapters on the nation's history and the current state of its political, social, and cultural institutions with alphabetically organized entries covering important people, places, and events in its development. Throughout, the authors, drawing on extensive research and their own experiences, highlight the many ways Costa Rica is different from its neighbors, as well as the challenges the country faces in the 21st century's globalized world. |
| costa rica political map: Map Types Ann Becker, 2009 Map Types examines what maps are and how different maps are created and used. The book features beautiful color images, stunning historic and contemporary maps, and easy-to-follow text. |
| costa rica political map: Research Guide to Costa Rica Carlos L. Elizondo, Juan B. González, Luis F. Martínez, Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Costa Rica). Oficina de Investigaciones Geográficas, 1977 |
| costa rica political map: The Ticos Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz, Richard Biesanz, Karen Zubris Biesanz, 1999 The authors trace the evolution of Costa Rican culture and institutions from pre-Columbian times through the late 1990s. Particularly concerned with the change wrought by the economic crisis of the 1980s, they base their portrayal on interviews with Costa Ricans; observations of many facets--from coffee plantation work to the deliberations of the Legislature; and readings of journalists, essayists, poets, historians, and others. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| costa rica political map: Gringo Gulch Megan Rivers-Moore, 2016-08-04 Gringo Gulch is a spot in San Jose, Costa Rica, home of female sex workers who have male clients from abroad (from North America in particular). Rivers-Moore s work leads the way in a burgeoning scholarly initiative to explore global sex tourism based on long-term qualitative research. Her work on the gulch is populated not only by sex workers and their clients, but also by state agents and NGO workers. All of them, she argues, use sex tourism as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore addresses central questions: why has Costa Rica (a middle-income country thought to be an exceptional success in Latin America) emerged as a major site of sex tourism? How do sex tourists and sex workers derive meaning from their experiences, in what way do they profit from their encounters with each other? And how has the neoliberal entrenchment of state services and provisions across Latin America affected the role of the nation-state in relation to sexuality? This book shifts the conventional analysis away from questions of whether third world women s participation in sexual exchanges with first world men in tourism economies are exploitative; it asks, instead, new questions about how something is gained by all parties involved (presenting opportunities for economic and social mobility in terms of class positioning for all). Audiences for the book will include anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, as well as scholars in Latin American and Caribbean studies. |
| costa rica political map: Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps Scholastic, Inc. Staff, 2000 101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more. |
| costa rica political map: Maps, Charts, Graphs & Diagrams John Carratello, Patty Carratello, 1996-03 With this book, teachers can give students many hands-on opportunities to practice using these visual tools in a meaningful context. Students will learn how to read different types of maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams, as well as how to construct their own. They will learn which visual tools are best for presenting specific types of information.--Page 3. |
| costa rica political map: The Longest Line on the Map Eric Rutkow, 2019-01-08 From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.” The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale. |
| costa rica political map: CultureShock! Costa Rica Claire Wallerstein, 2010-08-15 |
| costa rica political map: National Geographic Visual Atlas of the World National Geographic Society (U.S.), 2009 A comprehensive, up-to-date atlas encompasses more than three hundred thematic maps, along with more than six hundred color photographs, illustrations, charts, and graphs, that document the world's natural and cultural wonders. |
| costa rica political map: Economic Controls and Commercial Policy in Costa Rica ... United States Tariff Commission, 1945 |
| costa rica political map: Costa Rica Adrian Colesberry, Brass McLean, 1993-10 |
| costa rica political map: Costa Rica-Panama Arbitration Costa Rica, 1913 |
| costa rica political map: Map Basics Maxwell Baber, 2007 Map skills are an essential tool for every day life. Lively text and sample maps help students understand maps and how to use them. |
| costa rica political map: National Geographic Kids World Atlas National Geographic Society (U.S.), National Geographic, 2013 Presents world, regional, and thematic maps as well as photographic essays on each continent. |
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| costa rica political map: Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan Noah Coburn, Anna Larson, 2014-01-07 This volume shows how Afghani elections since 2004 have threatened to derail the country’s fledgling democracy. Examining presidential, parliamentary, and provincial council elections and conducting interviews with more than one hundred candidates, officials, community leaders, and voters, the text shows how international approaches to Afghani elections have misunderstood the role of local actors, who have hijacked elections in their favor, alienated communities, undermined representative processes, and fueled insurgency, fostering a dangerous disillusionment among Afghan voters. |
| costa rica political map: Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), 1919 |
| costa rica political map: Help Your Kids with Geography DK, 2023-09-13 Help your kids to be the best in their geography class. This book will help you to understand what they’re being taught so you can answer all their geography questions. This book is what every frustrated parent needs. Its innovative approach combines colorful diagrams and illustrations with step-by-step explanations, making geography easier to understand than ever before. Covering all the core subjects for 10–16 year olds, from oceans and volcanoes to climate change and population growth, this invaluable guide allows parents and kids to work together to understand even the trickiest topics. You will both soon be experts in map reading, plate tectonics, data handling, and much more. Explore the pages of this great geography book for kids to find: - Concepts of human and physical geography, including fieldwork skills, are made simple, with clear text and step-by-step explanations. - Covers not just aspects of physical geography and human geography, but presents practical skills necessary for succeeding in the subject. - Stimulates children’s interest in geography, maps, geological features, and human interaction - All content reviewed by educational consultants. - Provides key support for developing geography skills at home alongside school studies Fully revised and updated for 2023, Help Your Kids with Geography is guaranteed to build confidence, reduce stress, and make even the most difficult aspects of this subject simple, clear, and accessible. |
| costa rica political map: Help Your Kids with Geography, Grades 5-10 DK, 2021-08-10 When homework feels like a big mountain to climb for your kids, help them reach the top of their geography class with this unique step-by-step visual guide. Covering all the core subjects for kids ages 10-16, from oceans to volcanoes to climate change and population growth, this invaluable guide allows parents and kids to work together to understand even the trickiest topics. Inside of the pages of this subject aid, you’ll find: • Concepts of human and physical geography, including fieldwork skills, using easy to follow explanations. • Presentations about practical skills necessary for succeeding in the subject. • Key support for developing geography skills at home alongside school studies. Fully revised and updated for 2021 to include global pandemics, climate change, mega cities and data science, Help Your Kids with Geography builds confidence, reduces stress and makes even the most difficult aspects of this subject simple, clear, and accessible for kids in grades 5-11. Brush up on your own knowledge of the earth sciences, weather systems, topography and biogeography with interesting facts to help your kids navigate the longitude and latitude of their homework. Help Your Kids With series covers a range of school subjects like Math, Science, English, Computer Coding and Computer Skills, and there’s even a Help Your Kids With Study Skills to make schoolwork less frustrating for students and parents. |
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