Latin American and Latino Studies
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Program in Latin American and Latino Studies
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[edit] Search Engines
*Google Scholar Google Scholar is is great way to find books, articles, and websites on scholarly topics. Materials in Spanish are limited but things are improving.
*Google Books Google Books is a useful tool to find some books, on-line books or otherwise. Some of the books are partial renderings. Materials in Spanish are limited but things are improving.
[edit] Databases
*JSTOR Search and browse scholarly articles in a wide range of disciplines, including the physical sciences, social sciences, art, and literature. Also includes images from ARTstor
*Project Muse Includes a number of journals on Latin American Studies including Latin American Research Review and Hispanic Review among others.
*ClasePeriodicaLatin American journal article citations (not full text). Composed of two Spanish-language indexes joined together in one service. The CLASE database indexes over 1200 Latin American journals in the social sciences and the humanities, while the PERIODICA database indexes over 1400 Latin American science and technology journals.
*MLA Bibliography References to sources on literature, linguistics, folklore, literary theory, etc. Coverage for some journals goes as far back as 1926.
*Historical AbstractsCovers the history of the world (excluding the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Useful for women's studies, history of education, military history and more. Includes journal articles and dissertations. (1955 - present)
*EIU Viewswire - Full text
Analysis of international economic, political and business developments.
*Directory of Open-Access Journals A collective of fee-free e-journals from around the world. Especially rich in journals from Brazil, Chile, and Spain.
*Dialnet (University of Rioja) a Hispanic scientific production diffusion portal.
[edit] Books
Art and Architecture
- Bailey, Gauvin A. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773. Toronto/Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1999.
- Castedo, Leopoldo. A History of Latin American Art and Architecture from pre-Columbian Times to the Present. Translated and edited by Phyllis Freeman. New York: Praeger 1969.
- Hardoy, Jorge Enrique. Pre-Columbian Cities. New York: Walker, 1973.
- Turner, Jane. Encyclopedia of Latin American & Caribbean Art. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 2000
Country Studies
- Countries and Their Cultures - Available as a Full text E-Book
Entries contain descriptive summaries of countries around the world, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.
- Burns, E. Bradford. A History of Brazil. New York: Columbia University Press, c1993.
- Galdames, Luis. A History of Chile. New York, Russell & Russell, 1964.
- Klarén, Peter F. Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Reserved)
- Klein, Herbert S. Bolivia: The Evolution of a Multi-ethnic Society. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable revolutions: the United States in Central America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
- Pérez, Louis A. Essays on Cuban History: Historiography and Research. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1995.
- Riding, Alan. Distant Neighbors: a Portrait of the Mexicans. New York: Vintage Books, 2000, c1984.
- Sierra, Justo. The Political Evolution of the Mexican People. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1969.
- Rock, David. Argentina, 1516-1982: From Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Encyclopedias
- Balderston, Daniel, & Mike Gonzalez & Ana M. López. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. London/New York: Routledge, 2000
- Rosenberg, Jerry M. Encyclopedia of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the New American Community, and Latin-American Trade. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995.
- Tenenbaum, Barbara A. Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons/London: Simon & Schuster: Prentice Hall International, 1996.
- Sancha, Bernado Cuéllar. Gran Enciclopedia Espasa. [España]: Espasa, c2002.
History/Standard Reference Works
- Bethell, Leslie. ed. The Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
- Bulmer-Thomas, V. The Economic History of Latin America since Independence. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Crow, John Armstrong. The Epic of Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1980.
- Keen, Benjamin. A History of Latin America. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1992.
- Hanke, Lewis. History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
Indigenous Peoples and ‘Mestizaje’
- Adams, Richard E. W. & Murdo J MacLeod, eds. Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Mesoamerica. Two parts. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Gibson, Charles. The Aztecs under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964.
- León Portilla, Miguel. Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, c1969.
- Mörner, Magnus. Race Mixture in the History of Latin America. Boston, Little, Brown [1967].
- Moseley, Michael Edward. The Incas and their Ancestors: the Archaeology of Peru. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
- Salomon, Frank. & Stuart B. Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas:South America. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Trigger, Bruce G. & Wilcomb E. Washburn, Wilcomb E. Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: North America. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Peoples of African Heritage in Latin America
- Curtin, Philip D. Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. Aldershot, Hampshire/Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, c2001. DT352.7 .C87 2001
- Jackson, Richard L. The Black image in Latin American literature. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1976. PQ7081 .J26
- Naro, Nancy Priscilla. Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003. F1419.N4 B42 2003
- Reichmann, Rebecca Lynn, ed. Race in Contemporary Brazil: from Indifference to Inequality. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. F2659.N4 R245 1999
Linguistics
- Roca, Ana and M. Cecilia Colombi, editors. Mi lengua: Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States. Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2003. PC4068 .U5 M55 2003
Literature & Culture Studies/Basic Reference Works
- Cortes, Eladio, ed. Dictionary of Mexican Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1992. Ref. PQ7106 .D53 1992
- Cunha-Giabbai, Gloria da. La narrativa histórica de escritoras latinoamericanas. Buenos Aires : Corregidor, c2004. PQ7082.H57 N37 2004
- Del Sarto. Ana, Alicia Rios & Abril Trigo. The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. F1408.3 .L38 2004.
- González Echevarría, Roberto & Enrique Pupo-Walker. The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. PQ7081.A1 C35 1996
- Foster, David. Modern Latin American Literature. Two vols. New York: Unger, 1975. Ref. PQ7081 .F63 1975
- Lichtblau, Myron. The Argentine Novel. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 1997. Ref. PQ7697 .L535 1997
- Martinez, Julio A. & Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide. New York: Greenwood, 1985. Ref. PS153.M4 C46 1985
- Solé, Carlos A. & María Isabel Abreu, eds. Latin American Writers. New York : Scribner, 1989. Three Volumes. Ref. PQ7081.A1 L37 1989
- Stern, Irwin, ed. Dictionary of Brazilian Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. Ref. PQ9506 .D53 1988.
- Valdés, Mario J. & Djelal Djelal. Literary Cultures of Latin America: a comparative history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. PQ7081.A1 L525 2004
- Williams, Emily Allen & Melvin Rahming. Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2006. PN849.C3 C52 2006
Social Sciences (Sociology, Economics, Global Studies)
- Alba, Víctor. Politics and the Labor Movement in Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968. HD6531.5 .A7213
- Cleary, Edward L. & Timothy J. Steigenga, eds. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004. BL2540 .R47 2004
- Damonte, Gerardo H. Constitution of Political Actors: Peasant Communities, Mining, and Mobilization in Bolivian and Peruvian Andes. F2212 .D366 2008
- Delorme, Robert. Latin America, 1983-1987: A Social Science Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. HC125 .D46 1988
- French, William E. & Katherine Elaine Bliss, eds. Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, c2007. 306.7098 G325
- Loker, William M., ed. Globalization and the Rural Poor in Latin America. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. 305.5690 L836g
- Mecham, J. Lloyd (John Lloyd). Church and State in Latin America; a History of Politicoecclesiastical Relations. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1966]. BR600 .M4 1966
- Robinson, William I. Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social change, and Globalization. London/New York: VERSO, 2003. HN123.5 .R6 2003
- Robinson, William I. A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004. HB501 .R625 2004
- Tulchin, Joseph S. and Ralph Espach, eds. Latin America in the New International System. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. JZ1519 .L38 2001
[edit] Websites
Handbook of Latin American Studies A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes An initiative of the University of Alicante, this megasite includes the full text of many literary classics, facsimiles of early works, literary criticism and historical studies, and doctoral dissertations. It also contains portals on Latin America, History, and Children’s Literature, as well as some photographs and teaching resources.
Latin American Network Information Center Associated with the Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas (UT)-Austin, this site aims “to provide Latin American users with access to academic databases and information services throughout the Internet, and to provide Latin Americanists around the world with access to information on and from Latin America.” It is primarily an index to government, academic, and popular websites, and can be searched by country or by category (such as Business, Government, etc.).
The Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association E-articles on various aspects of Peruvian culture and literature.
El proyecto digitial argentino An archive of masterworks of Argentine literature.
Red de revistas cientificas de America Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Network of science and social science resarch from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Potugual.
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos The Library System of the University Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, offers important digitized works in the Humanities and Social Sciences
SciELO Peru A Scientific Electronic Library On-Line from Peru.
Biblioteca Nacional del Peru Biblioteca Virtual de la Biblioteca Nacional del Peru, including Peruvian national literature as well as works from the Late Colonial era.
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos Textos digitales del Instituto de Estudios Peruanos en las ciencias sociales/Digital books in the Social Sciences from the Institute of Peruvian Studies
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