Latin American Studies  Tags: latin_america caribbean latino hispanic mesoamerica andes history  

Browse Diamond, the Libraries' online catalog, for books (mostly printed, some eBooks) about Latin America and the Caribbean.  A few suggested Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Latin America -- Economic Conditions
  

• Latin America -- History

• Latin America -- Social Conditions

• Women -- Latin America -- Economic Conditions
  

• Women -- Latin America -- History

• Women -- Latin America -- Social Conditions

• Country Name -- History
  
  
  • Brazil -- History
  • Cuba -- History
  • Haiti -- History
  • Jamaica -- History
  • Mexico -- History
  • Peru -- History

If Temple does not own the book you need, consider placing an Interlibrary Loan (or ILL) request through PALCI E-Z Borrow.

Use WorldCat to obtain holdings information in North American libraries and beyond.

Temple belongs to the LANE Video Consortium. (LANE stands for Latin America North East Libraries Consortium.) Several LANE member libraries will lend Spanish language and LAS-related videos within the consortium:

• CCNY Libraries, CUNY
• University of Connecticut
  
• Cornell University
  
• University at Albany, SUNY
• University of Massachusetts
• New York University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Princeton University
• Temple University

If you find a video at one of these institutions and would like to borrow it, simply fill out the standard ILLiad request form for Non-Print Materials. Please indicate that you are a member of LANE in the Notes field of your ILL request. This is very important, since ordinarily libraries do not lend videos to one another.

Other LANE member libraries at Dartmouth College, Harvard University (Widener Library), the University of Pittsburgh, and Yale University might lend videos to other LANE libraries depending on the circumstance. If you find a video at one of these institutions please contact me directly. I will contact my colleague at the institution in question to see if an arrangement can be made.

Search the Libraries' online catalog, Diamond, to find books owned by Temple University Libraries. Search by author, title, subject, or keyword (a keyword search includes all of the other fields). One useful technique, namely performing a keyword search that combines any search term with "s:history", will result in a list of records/books that have been designated as history titles. Note that placing "s:" before the search term "history" instructs Diamond to return only records for books that contain "history" in the subject field.

Example: A researcher looking for books about the history of the Yucatan Peninsula might perform the following keyword search: s:history AND Yucatan. This approach works well if the search term -- in this case "Yucatan" -- is tight and focused. It works less well if the search term is conceptually broad or common, for example s:history AND Mexico. Remember that in all cases narrowly focused or unique search terms retrieve the most relevant results. In this example the best search might be s:history AND "caste war".

Enter one or more search terms into the Diamond keyword text box below to find history books owned by Temple University Libraries:

The following Library of Congress Subject Headings are used in Diamond for works about, i.e. that analyze or describe, Spanish and Latin American film:

• Motion Pictures--Latin America
• Motion Pictures--Spain
• Motion Pictures--Spain--History

Need to find Spanish-language films or films in English about Spain / Latin America? While the bibliographic records for our videos do not include a distinct "Latin American" collection or location field that would allow for a comprehensive list of all relevant titles to be created in a single search, it is possible to keyword search the Diamond catalog's main Video/DVD search box (below) to find videos of interest. You might wish to copy/paste the following searches -- the parts in bold type -- into the search box. Your results list in Diamond will display in descending chronological order, newest productions first. It is also possible to browse lists of Feature, Animated, and Documentary films. Remember, no single search will yield a complete list of all LAS-related videos owned by Temple University Libraries.

• s:spanish - This search retrieves a list of videorecordings with the word "Spanish" in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (the "s:") field; currently yields almost 300 titles
• "latin america*" - This search retrieves a list of videorecordings with the phrase "Latin America" or "Latin American" anywhere in the bibliographic record; currently yields well over 200 titles
• [country name], e.g. Boliv* for Bolivia and Bolivian; currently yields more than a dozen titles, about half of which are in Spanish

The databases listed below provide access to full-text eBooks on Latin America. Keep in mind, however, that most academic book titles remain available only in paper (see Diamond, above).

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

Over 1,000 full-text "books of high quality in the field of history". Search by keyword or Library of Congress Subject Heading, beginning perhpas with those suggested in the "Browse by Subject" on this page (upper left-hand column).

 

Selected list of Latin American history titles:

• Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831. c1992
• Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826. c1983
• Church and State in Latin America: A History of Politico-Ecclesiastical Relations. c1934
• Conquest of Mexico, by William Prescott. c1992

Note: Prescott's work, written in the 19th Century, remains the standard account of the Conquest. A more recent contender is Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico, by Hugh Tomas ( c1993). An interesting work challenging these standard accounts is Matthew Restall's Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (c2003). Primary-source Spanish accounts of the Conquest can be found in Letters from Mexico by Hernan Cortes (c1971), and in the English translation of Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espana [True History of the Conquest of New Spain], by Bernal Diaz (c1963). Indigenous Mexica and Tlaxcalan accounts are available in Saints and Warriors: Tlaxcalan Perspectives on the Conquest of Tenochtitlan (c2004); Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (c2000); We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (c1993); and most importantly in Miguel Leon Portilla's classic work, The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (c1962).

• Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century. c1989
• The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924. c1980
• The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940. c1990
• Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda. c1963
• The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938. c1992
• Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834. c1995

CIAO Books (Columbia International Affairs Online)

 

Selected list of titles related to Latin America:

• Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism. c1999
• Forecasting Mexico's Democratic Transition: Scenarios for Policymakers. c2003
• When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998. c1999

netLibrary

The premier source for full-text electronic books; search by keyword or the same LC subject headings used in Diamond and suggested to the left.

 

Selected list of Latin American history titles:

• Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life & Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century Havana. c1998
• The French in Central America: Culture and Commerce, 1820-1930. c2000
• The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. c1993
• Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos. c1995
• History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott.
• In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco Leon De La Barra and the Mexican Revolution. c2000
• Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption. c1999
• Peronism and Argentina. c1998
• Slavery & Abolition in Early Republican Peru. c1992
• Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World. c1995