The heritage of the conquistadors : [electronic resource] ruling classes in Central America from the Conquest to the Sandinistas / Samuel Z. Stone ; foreword by Richard E. Greenleaf.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1990.Description: xiv, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0803242077
- 9780803242074
- 0803292147 (pbk)
- 9780803292147 (pbk)
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Central America -- History -- Case studies
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Costa Rica -- History
- Power (Social sciences) -- Case studies
- Central America -- Genealogy
- Costa Rica -- Genealogy
- Upper classes History
- Central America
- Poder (Ciencias sociales) -- Estudio con casos
- Elite (Ciencias sociales) -- Costa Rica -- Historia -- Estudio con casos
- América Central -- Genealogía
- Costa Rica -- Genealogía
- 305.5/2/097286 20
- HN125.2.E4 S755 1990
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index.
Ruling classes, production, and government -- Contemporary conflicts -- Conquistadors and nobility in the making of elites -- The new American nobility -- Political cultures and values -- Similar problems in dissimilar cultures -- The Costa Rican ruling class and values -- Pointers for the rest of the isthmus -- Final considerations -- Appendixes.
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