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Colonialism & Imagination in Early Latin America Professor Mangan Fall 2005 Reference Works Primary Sources General Search Tools Collections Bibliographies Other Examples Secondary Sources Books Articles Starting Points Core Resources for Latin American History Other Sources Notable Journals Web Sites Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster. New York: Garland, 2001. Reference R 972.01 A669 An Atlas and Survey of Latin American History. Ed. Michael LaRosa and German Mejia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. The Aztecs: A Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles. Comp. Thomas L. Welch and René L. Gutiérrez. Washington, DC: Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States, 1987. Reference R 016.97 W441a The Cambridge History of Latin America. Ed. Leslie Bethell. 11 vols. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984-1986. Little Library Stacks 980 C1781 Dictionary of Mexican Rulers, 1325-1997. Juana Vázquez-Gómez. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. Reference R 923.172 V393d Enciclopedia de México. José Rogelio Alvarez. 14 vols. Mexico City: Enciclopedia de México, 1987-1988. Reference R 972 E56 Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Year 1800. Raymond John Howgego. Potts Point, NSW, Australia: Hordern House, 2003. Reference R 910.9 H859e Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Ed. Barbara A. Tenenbaum. 5 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 980 E56 Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, & Culture. Ed. Michael S. Werner. 2 vols. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. Reference R 972 E561 Europe 1450-1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2004. Reference R 940.2 E89 Historical Atlas of Central America. Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Reference R 911.72 H174h Historical Atlas of Exploration, 1492-1600. Angus Konstam. New York: Checkmak Books, 2000. Reference R 910.9 K82h Historical Atlas of Latin America: Political, Geographic, Economic, Cultural. A. Curtis Wilgus. New ed. New York: Cooper Square, 1967. Reference R 911.8 W677h Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988. Ed. Robert W. Kern. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990. Reference R 946.003 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1992. Reference R 914.6 H673 History of World Trade Since 1450. Ed. John McCusker. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006. Latin America: A Guide to the Historical Literature. Ed. Charles C. Griffin. Austin, TX: Conference on Latin American History, Univ. of Texas Press, 1971. Reference R 016.98 G851L Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Resources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York: Greenwood, 1992. Reference R 016.98 L3561 Latin American Historical Dictionaries Series. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1970- . Historical Dictionary of ... ... Bolivia (Reference R 984 H437h) ... Brazil (Reference R 981 L665h) ... Chile (Reference R 983 B625h) ... Colombia (Reference R 986.1 D263h) ... Costa Rica (Reference R 972.86 C913h) ... Cuba (Reference R 972.91 S942h) ... Ecuador (Reference R 986.6 B734h) ... El Salvador (Reference R 972.84 F598h) ... Honduras (Reference R 972.83 M612h) ... Nicaragua (Reference R 972.85 M612h) ... Panama (Reference R 918.62 H456h) ... Paraguay (Reference R 989.2 K81h) ... Uruguay (Reference R 989.5 W734h) ... Venezuela (Reference R 987 R917h) Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Michael Gerli. New York: Routledge, 2003. Reference R 946.02 M489 Northern New Spain: A Research Guide. Thomas C. Barnes et al. Tucson, AZ: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1981. Reference R 016.979 B261n The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Ed. David Carrasco. 3 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. Reference R 972.01 O98 A Reference Guide to Latin American History. Ed. James D. Henderson et al. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. Reference R 980 R332 Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. David F. Marley. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998. Reference R 355 M347w Primary Sources General Search Tools | Collections | Bibliographies | Other Examples General Search Tools Consult the reference sources and bibliographies listed above. Library Catalogue To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: sources correspondence diaries personal narratives You can also find contemporary travelers' accounts by adding the phrase "description and travel" to your keyword search (e.g. california and "description and travel"); be sure to limit by date. For more details, see below. WorldCat To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: sources correspondence diaries personal narratives. Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format. For more details, see below. Collections Early English Books Online (EEB0) (1475-1700) Includes over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, almanacs, and other publications printed in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Note: Includes only a small number of periodicals. To print more than a citation or one page of a document, you need to add a record to your marked list then click on the "Marked List" button at the top of the page. Finally, click on the "View a complete list of the Document Image Sets available for this record to download in PDF format." Once the document is downloaded, you can print out a range of pages or the entire document using the print function in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800) Includes the full text of 155,000 150,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society The Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, publishes narratives of voyages, travels, and expeditions as well as other early works on geography, navigation, and exploration. Documents include correspondence and journals of early explorers of Latin America. Works originally written in other languages are translated into English. To date, more than 270 titles have been published in three series. Library has: First Series: microfiche cabinet A-1A Second Series: microfiche cabinet A-1A (2nd ser. nos. 1-107) and Little Library Stacks 910.8 H15w (2nd ser. nos. 109-190 plus misc. earlier nos.) Third Series: Little Library Stacks 910.8 H15w (nos. 1- ) [ongoing] To find titles in these series: do a "Keyword (words anywhere)" search for the phrase "works issued by the Hakluyt Society" and add additional keywords related to your topic. Bibliographies Latin America: A Guide to the Historical Literature. Ed. Charles C. Griffin. Austin, TX: Conference on Latin American History, Univ. of Texas Press, 1971. Reference R 016.98 G851L Lists primary sources along with secondary sources; consult Part IV, "Colonial Latin America." Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Resources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York: Greenwood, 1992. Reference R 016.98 L3561 The chapters on "Colonial History" and "History , 1750-1850" contain lists of bibliographies and sources. Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times. Meri Knaster. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977. Reference R 016.3 K67w In the "History" section, lists some publications that contain or excerpt primary source materials. Other Examples Chronicle of Colonial Lima; The Diary of Josephe and Francisco Mugaburu, 1640-1697. Trans. and ed. Robert Ryal Miller. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1975. Little Library Stacks 985 M951d-T Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850. Ed. Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling. New York: Oxford, 2000. Little Library Stacks 980.3 C719 Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History. Ed. Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998. Little Library Stacks 980.01 C7191 Gazetas de México [newspaper on microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-15 Library has: 1796-1809 Letters and People of the Spanish Indies, Sixteenth Century. Ed. and trans. James Lockhart and Enrique Otte. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976. Little Library Stacks 980.01 L651 Maya Conquistador. Matthew Restall. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. Little Library Stacks 972.02 R436m New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the early 17th Century. Ed. John H. Parry and Robert G. Keith. 5 vols. New York: Hector & Rose, 1984. On Reserve at Little Circulation Desk 980.01 N532 We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Ed. and trans. James Lockhart. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1993. Reference R 972.02 W361 Secondary Sources Books | Articles Tools for Locating Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. Useful subject headings include: Encomiendas Indians of Mexico history Latin America history to 1600 Latin America history to 1830 Mexico history 16th century Mexico history 17th century Mexico history 18th century Mexico history conquest 1519-1540 Mexico history Spanish colony 1540-1810 Mexico history wars of independence 1810-1821 Peru history 1548-1820 Peru history conquest 1522-1548 Spain colonies America history To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war"). Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Tools for Locating Articles Starting Points | Core Resources for Latin American History | Other Sources | Notable Journals Starting Points Academic Search Elite (1984 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. InfoTrac OneFile (1980 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also included citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use an exclamation point !. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Core Resources for Latin American History Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online (1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers covering topics related to Latin America; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online (1970 to present) Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and original literary works and covers the literature, history, culture, and politics of the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, and the United States-Mexico border. Also covers works related to Hispanics in the United States. Search Syntax Truncation: automatic. Phrase searching: automatic. Historical Abstracts (1450 to present [historical time period covered]; 1954 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on world history, excluding the history of the U.S. and Canada. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1842 to present [publication date of articles indexed]; 400-1700 [historical time period covered]) Indexes scholarly articles and books on topics related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Other Sources Essay & General Literature Index Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years. Search Syntax Truncation: use a plus sign +. Phrase searching: automatic. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Notable Journals The Americas 1983 to present available in Little Library Bound & Current Periodicals. 1944-2001 available through JSTOR. 2000 to present available through Project Muse. Colonial Latin American Historical Review (CLAHR) 2003 to present available in Little Library Bound & Current Periodicals. Colonial Latin American Review 2005 to present available in Little Library Bound & Current Periodicals 1996 to 2004 available through Academic Search Elite. Hispanic American Historical Review 1918 to present available in Little Library Bound & Current Periodicals. 1918-1999 available through JSTOR 1999-2004 available through Project Muse. Journal of Latin American Studies 1969 to present available in Little Library Bound & Current Periodicals 1969-1999 available through JSTOR Web Sites LANIC: Latin American Information Center, Lozana Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin Sources and General Resources on Latin America, Steven Volk, Department of History, Oberlin College Tips & Further Help How to Find Book Reviews How to Identify a Scholarly Article How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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