Costa Rica Before Coffee: Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom
- ISBN-10
- 0807112747
- ISBN-13
- 9780807112748
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 204
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986-01-01
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press
- Author
- Lowell Gudmundson
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- 1999-03-01
- 224 pages
- Paperback
- LSU Press
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