About This Guide
This highly selective guide covers the most useful, current and basic reference sources for social sciences and historical information on the Latin American countries and region.
For sources on language and literature in Latin America see the guide to Romance Languages & Literatures.
This guide includes sources professors expect students to consult when researching paper topics and locating data or evidence to support a thesis.
Since the purpose of this guide is to facilitate your research and is only part of the research process, you are encouraged to ask the Reference Desk Staff or me questions while you are in the library or email me your questions.
Additional information and guidance is available from the Subject Specialist for Latin American Studies, Lawrence Busenbark (617-552-2253; lawrence.busenbark@bc.edu).
Introductions to Latin American Studies
- Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture
Essays analyze Latin American history and politics from the nineteenth century to the present day and consider the heritage of pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America. - Cambridge History of Latin America Authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans to the present day. 11 volumes.
- A Companion to Latin American History A compendium of chronologically and thematically arranged descriptive and interpretive essays on the history of Latin America.
- A Companion to Latina/o Studies A collection of essays exploring "everything from theories of latinismo, immigration, education, language and religion; to discussions on political and economic perspectives, and race, class, gender, and sexuality."
- A Companion to Latin American Anthropology This guide "introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the [anthropological] study of this diverse region."
- Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of CongressA sampling of guides and reference aids that provide information on selected Luso-Hispanic holdings of the Library of Congress.
- HLAS Online : Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American StudiesThe Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
- A Reference Guide to Latin American History (O'Neill Reference F1410.H463 2000)
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