Research Guides: *Latin American Studies: General Area Resources

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Handbook of Latin American Studies: HLAS This link opens in a new window
A database of bibliographic records pertaining to Latin America. Coverage: 1936 to present. Direct full text linking is limited.

The Handbook of Latin American Studies contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations. Coverage: Social sciences and the humanities are covered in alternate years from 1990 to the present (for example, humanities are covered in 1990, social sciences in 1991).
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) This link opens in a new window
U.S.-Hispanic, Latin American and Caribbean topics. Coverage: 1970 to present
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
International affairs working papers, proceedings, and policy briefs. Coverage: 1991 to present
Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
Full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines.

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
A multi volume set on literature in Latin America, with strong emphasis on the twentieth century.

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Modern literature, language, linguistics, and folklore journal articles and books. Citations with links to full text. Coverage: 1926 to present
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of literary authors.

Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
Location: ebook
An accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela).

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History This link opens in a new window
Authoritative essays with bibliographies.
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Includes topical coverage of Latin American and Latino Studies in areas of history, literature, religion, food, and more in the humanities and social sciences.

Oxford Bibliographies offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and are keyword searchable.
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographies of historically significant Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans.
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean Archive This link opens in a new window
Primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean.

Include U.S. diplomatic records.

The Cambridge History of Latin America
A multi volume series from the colonial period to the present, covering Latin America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume 1. The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century
Location: ebook
Volume one includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850, linking Latin America's economic history to the pre-Hispanic, European, and African background. It also synthesizes knowledge on the human and environmental impact of the Spanish conquest, the evolution of colonial economic institutions, and the performance of key sectors of the colonial and immediate post-colonial economies. Finally, it analyses of the costs and benefits of independence.
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume 2. The Long Twentieth Century
Location: ebook
Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth from the last decades of the nineteenth century to 1930. It explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Finally, it looks at the long term trends in capital flows, agriculture and the environment.

EconLit This link opens in a new window
Economics journal article and working paper abstracts. Coverage 1886-present econ lit

OECD Economic Surveys
Reports on economic challenges facing OECD members and select non-member countries, including statistics and analyses. Coverage: 1961 to present

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Latino Cultures in the US
Created by the Google Cultural Institute , one of the largest digital collections of Latino art, culture, and history.
Out of the Wings: Spanish and Spanish American Theatres in Translation
Contain details of plays written in Spanish in different periods and countries, as well as information about their authors, sample translations into English, synopses, performance histories and many other tools for interpreting the featured drama.
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