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Primary Source Books on
Latin American History
Mark Rosenberg Americas: An Anthology (Call # F1408 .A62)
Gabriela Nouzeilles,
The Argentina Reader (Call # F2810 .A646 2002)
Orin Starn, The Peru Reader (Call # F3431 .P478)
Gilbert M. Joseph, The Mexico Reader (Call # F1226
.M53)
Steven
Palmer, The Costa Rica Reader (Call # F1546 .C765
2004)
Aviva Chomsky, The Cuba Reader (Call # F1776
.C85)
Jurgen Buchenau Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes
of Foreign Observers (Call # F1231.5 .M666 2005)
Nora E. Jaffary
Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader
(Call # F1203 M49 2010)
E. Bradford Burns, Latin America Conflict and Creation: A Historical Reader (Call # F1410 .L387)
Robert Holden Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History (Call # F1418 .L354)
Eric
E. O’Connor Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race, and Nation (Volume
II) (Call # F1410.D63 2011)
Michael
LaRosa Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in
U.S.-Latin American Relations (Call # F1418 .N397
2007)
Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote
Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Adele Toussaint-Samson, A Parisian in Brazil: The Travel Account of a French Woman in
Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Samuel Basch, Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months
of Maximilian’s Empire (Call # F1233 .B293)
Domingo Sarmiento, Life In the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants; or
Civilization and Barbarism (E-Book)
Domingo Sarmiento, Recollections of a Provincial Past (Call # F2961 .S2413)
June Hahner, Women through Women’s Eyes: Latin American
Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts (E-Book)
June Hahner, Women in Latin American History: Their Lives
and Views (Call # HQ1460.5 .W64)
Maria Callcott, Journal of a residence in Chile during the
year 1822; and, A voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823 (call # F3063.C15
2003)
Alexander von Humboldt, Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain (The John Black translation) (call #
F1211.H925)
Joel Roberts Poinsett, Notes on Mexico, made in the autumn of 1822 (Call # F1213.P76 1969)
Frank MacShane, Impressions of Latin America: five centuries
of travel and adventure by English and North American writers (Call #
F1408.M25)
Websites with Primary Sources
For Modern Latin America
Latin American Newspapers
McDermott Library
website- the library subscribes to a database of many historical Latin American
newspapers. Go to the library website,
click on “find articles & databases,” click on “newspapers,” Latin American
Newspapers tab is at the bottom of the list.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
A variety of sources in the study of modern history. Go to the Modern Latin America section.
Latin America Network Information Center - LANIC
University of Texas site with links to a variety of sites dealing with issues in Latin American studies.
Sources and General Resources on Latin America
Site maintained by Professor Steven Volk of Oberlin College. It includes links to libraries and archives, as well as scholarly journals and primary sources.
Site maintained by Professor Richard Slatta of North Carolina State University. It includes a number of links to primary sources organized by topic.
AGN - Archivo General de la Nacion de Mexico
Web page of Mexico's national archive for government sources.
Internet Resources on Latin America - Tulane University
List of useful links to internet sites dealing with Latin America.
Internet Resources for Latin America - La Guia
Latin America internet sources compiled by New Mexico State University.
National Security Archive - George Washington University
Online archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Most issues are from the late 20th century.
Political Database of the Americas - Georgetown University/Organization of American States
Online collection of information on political institutions of Latin American countries.
Latin American Databank - The Roper Center
Online archive of public opinion surveys from various Latin American countries.
Handbook of Latin American Studies - Library of Congress
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
U.S. State Department - Country Background Notes Archive
Online archive of State Department Country Background Notes.
Latin American Election Statistics - University of California San Diego
Online archive that provides chronologies of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels for various Latin American countries.
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
Latin Americanist
Research Resources Project provides over 75,000 digitized pages of
Spanish-language presidential messages.
Argentine government website with information on the era of military dictatorship in the 1970s.