127th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2013): Reimagining the Switzerland of Central America: Police Brutality, Domestic Violence, and Labor Strife in Twentieth-Century Costa Rica

Reimagining the Switzerland of Central America: Police Brutality, Domestic Violence, and Labor Strife in Twentieth-Century Costa Rica

Conference on Latin American History 32

Friday, January 4, 2013: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Beauregard Salon (Hotel Monteleone)

Chair:

Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College

Papers:

Maintaining the Patriarchal Order: Drinking, Bootlegging, and Domestic Violence in the Costa Rican Countryside, 1900–50
Carmen Kordick de Cubero, Georgia College and State University

Honor and Violence: Nicaraguans in Costa Rica, 1930s–40s
Carlos Enrique Aleman, Michigan State University

Pretending to Be Peaceful: Costa Rica’s Public Forces, 1940s–80s
Julie A. Charlip, Whitman College

Comment:

Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College

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