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The Latin American Studies Collection, interdisciplinary in nature, consists of books, journals, electronic resources, microfilms, and videos. Areas of collecting emphasis include 20th century politics and government, human rights, economic development, and church-state relations. The history collections are particularly strong for colonial Peru and 19th century Argentina. Rare books and manuscripts from Peru and Argentina are located in the Department of Special Collections.

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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 79 databases | 28 e-journals )

Cambridge history of Latin America /

Call Number: HESB GEN F 1410 .C1834 1984
Call Number: REF GEN F 1410 .C1834 1984

Coverage:
v.1-v.8, v.10-v.11 v.1-v.8, v.10-v.11 v.6
A basic survey for all historic periods with excellent coverage of countries and regions as well as themes. The final volume provides a bibliographical review of major scholarship and sources.
Handbook of Latin American studies

"... 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 ..."--Home page.Titles indexed
HAPI: Hispanic American periodicals index

Coverage:
1970-
Provides citations to articles, book reviews, and documents on Hispanic American topics in over 400 social science and humanities journals.
LAPTOC (see Latin American periodicals tables of contents (LAPTOC))
Latin American periodicals tables of contents (LAPTOC)

Provides access to tables of contents for hundreds of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America; Web database with search by journal and article and browse by country.
Letras y folios

Call Number: HESB RES Electronic F 2251 .L48 2002
The CD is a result of approximately 4 years of work selecting, registering, systematizing and analyzing documents on the colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada.