Böcker av Lowell Gudmundson

Focuses on the decade of the 1840s, when the impact of coffee and export agriculture began to revolutionize Costa Rican society. Lowell Gudmundson focuses on the nature of the society prior to the coffee boom, but he also makes observations on the entire sweep of Costa Rican history.

This volume consists of two interrelated essays dealing with the economic, social and political changes that took place in Central America, changes that led to both liberal regime consolidation and export agricultural development after the middle of the 19th century.