This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country's image as an "agrarian democracy" and investigat

Essential essays from “one of the most prolific, provocative, and pre-eminent historians working in the field of Mexican and Latin-American history today” (

Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal dimensions of Latin America's