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1 RESOURCE GUIDE Booth Library Eastern Illinois University Latin American History A Selected List of Resources Booth Library has a large collection of learning resources to support the study of Latin American history by undergraduates, graduates and faculty. The materials are held in the reference collection, the main book holdings, the journal collection and the online full-text databases. Books and journal articles from other libraries may be obtained using interlibrary loan. This is a subject guide to selected works in this field that are held by the library. The citations on this list represent only a small portion of the available literature owned by Booth Library. Additional materials can be found by searching the EIU Online Catalog. To find books, browse the shelves in these call numbers for the following subject areas: F Latin America F Mexico F Antiquities F Central America F Mayas F Guatemala F El Salvador F Honduras F Nicaragua F Costa Rica F Panama F Cuba F Dominican Republic F Puerto Rico F Colombia F Venezuela F Brazil F Paraguay F Uruguay F Argentina F Chile F Bolivia F Peru F Ecuador

2 REFERENCE WORKS Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.REF F1406.E Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture REF F1754.E Encyclopedia of Latin America..REF F1406.E Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture..REF F1406.E Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics..REF F1410.E Historical Dictionary of Honduras..... REF F1502.M Historical Dictionary of Mexico.. REF F1204.B Historical Dictionary of Nicaragua... REF F1522.M4 Historical Dictionary of Paraguay.. REF F2664.K Latin America, History and Culture: An Encyclopedia for Students.REF F1406.T Oxford Encyclopedia of MesoAmerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America... REF F O Pop Culture Latin America!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle..REF F S Reference Guide to Latin American History...REF F1410.H GENERAL WORKS Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. Stacks F1410.C Brief History of Central America.. Stacks F1436.F Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present Stacks F1621.R Cambridge History of Latin America... Stacks F1410.C Companion to Latin American History...Stacks F1410.C Concise History of the Caribbean..Stacks F1621.H History of Central America... Stacks F1436.P History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels, Stacks F1410.B History of Latin America to 1825.Stacks F1410.B Latin America: Regions and People Stacks F K Oxford Handbook of Latin American History Stacks F1410.O HISTORIES OF INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES Argentina, : From Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War. Stacks F2831.R Argentina: A Global Studies Handbook..Stacks F E Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, Stacks F2276.P Brazil: A Global Studies Handbook.Stacks F E Brazil: Five Centuries of Change. Stacks F2521.S Brief History of Bolivia Stacks F3321.M Concise History of Bolivia... Stacks F3321.K Cuba: A New History... Stacks F1776.G Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala.. Stacks F H Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics.Stacks F1466.G History of Argentina...Stacks F2831.L History of Brazil.Stacks F2521.L History of Chile..Stacks F3081.R History of Costa Rica... Stacks F1546.R History of El Salvador. Stacks F1486.W History of Honduras. Stacks F1506.L (Histories of Individual Countries cont. on page 3)

3 History of Panama Stacks F1566.H History of Peru..Stacks F3431.M History of Puerto Rico.. Stacks F1971.P History of Venezuela. Stacks F2321.T Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself. Stacks F2271.B Mexico: A Brief History... Stacks F1226.H Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle... Stacks F1526.W x Oxford History of Mexico... Stacks F1226.O x Paraguay: An informal History.. Stacks F2681.W3 Quisqueya: A History of the Dominican Republic.. Stacks F1938.R6 PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus... Stacks E61.M Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization Stacks F1435.D Ancient South America. Stacks F2229.B Aztec World.Stacks F A x Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume 3: South America. Stacks E77.N Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao Stacks F F7 C Conquest of America: The Question of the Other Stacks E123.T x Conquistadors... Stacks E123.W Daily Life in Maya Civilization...Stacks F1435.S Handbook to Life in the Aztec World Stacks F A History of the Khipu.Stacks F Q6 B Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, A.D Oversize F3429.R Incas: Lords of the Four Quarters Stacks F3429.M Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: The Americas before Columbus Stacks E58.F x Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization Stacks F1219.L Maya... Stacks F1435.C x Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs.. Stacks F C x Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico... Stacks F G95 N Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society.. Stacks F3429.P Prehistoric Mesoamerica. Stacks F1219.A Southern Maya in the Late Preclassic: The Rise and Fall of an Early Mesoamerican Civilization...Stacks F C492 S Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan. Stacks F P75 C Women in Ancient America Stacks E59.W8 B COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, Stacks F1376.C Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, Stacks N D Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race, and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, Stacks F1411.E (Colonial Latin America cont. on page 4)

4 Bourbon Peru, Stacks F3444.F x Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico... Stacks F1230.V Colonial Latin America Stacks F1412.B Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World..Stacks N K Conquest: The Destruction of the American Indios...Stacks E123.L x Conquest of the Incas. Stacks F3442.H b Daily Life in Colonial Latin America...Stacks F J Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, Stacks F1230.D Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil. Stacks F1411.L Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America...Stacks F1411.T Last Days of the Incas Stacks F3442.M Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival... Stacks F1435.F x Mexico: The Colonial Era Stacks F1231.K Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America.Stacks ML3917.L27 M Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit.Stacks F2161.B Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, Stacks HC124.P Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, Stacks DP583.P Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Stacks F1230.R x Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century.. Stacks F1783.K55 Spanish Empire in America... Stacks F1410.H25 Spanish Peru, : A Social History. Stacks F3444.L We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico.. Stacks F W Women of Colonial Latin America. Stacks HQ S WARS OF INDEPENDENCE Americanos: Latin America s Struggle for Independence...Stacks F1412.C Latin American Revolutions, : Old and New World Origins... Stacks F1412.L Liberators: Latin America s Struggle for Independence, Stacks F1412.H Wars of Independence in Spanish America...Stacks F1412.W LATIN AMERICA, INDEPENDENCE Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, Stacks F3097.S Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas...Stacks F R7 L Brazil: the forging of a nation, Stacks F2534.B Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations Stacks F1413.B Conflict between Church and State in Latin America Stacks BR600.P5 Economic History of Colombia Stacks HC197.M32 Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century.. Stacks F1413.B Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico. Stacks F1232.W Forging Mexico: Stacks F1232.A History of Chile, Stacks F3093.C x Independence in Spanish America: Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment...Stacks F1412.K Latin America in the Middle Period, Stacks F1412.V Mexican Revolution..Stacks F1234.G (Latin America, Independence cont. on page 5)

5 Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru... Stacks F M Pinochet Regime...Stacks F3100.H Prologue to Revolution: Cuba, Stacks HN203.I Ten Cents War: Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific, Stacks F3097.F POLITICS Comparative Latin American Politics...Stacks F1410.S Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left...Stacks JS2300.G Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since Stacks F1418.M Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America...Stacks F1418.R New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left.Stacks F S x Politics of Latin America: The Power Game..Stacks JL960.V Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America.Stacks F1407.K Shifting the Balance: Obama and the Americas Stacks JZ1480.A53 S Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America..Stacks F P76 M Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change Under Chávez Stacks F2329.R x WOMEN AND LATIN AMERICAN SOCIETY Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America...Stacks HD6073.B232 L Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America Stacks HQ L37 F Leadership from the Margins: Women and Civil Society Organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador Stacks HQ L37 C Political Power and Women s Representation in Latin America...Stacks HQ L37 S Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America Stacks HQ L37 H Women, Ethnicity, and Nationalisms in Latin America Stacks HQ W CULTURE AND SOCIETY Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture..Stacks F C Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, Stacks BX O Christianity Comes to the Americas, Stacks BR500.L Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America Stacks BJ1533.H8 F Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings.Stacks PQ7082.P76 L Latin American Women On/In Stages..Stacks PQ M Literature of Latin America.Stacks PQ7081.O Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean Stacks P94.65.L29 M Music of Latin America and the Caribbean..Stacks ML199.B New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America..Stacks BR600.L Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America.Stacks BL2540.L Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean...Stacks GV586.S ECONOMICS Ideas, Policies and Economic Development in the Americas..Stacks HC94.I Cambridge Economic History of Latin America...Stacks HC125.C (Economics cont. on page 6)

6 Economic Development of Latin America Since Independence...Stacks HC125.B x Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America.Stacks HC130.I5 G Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics...Stacks HC123.O94x 2011 BIOGRAPHIES Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism Stacks E125.C4 C Autobiography of Fidel Castro.Stacks F C3 F Bolivar: The Liberator of Latin America..Stacks F H x Che Guevara: A Biography Stacks F G85 H Cortés: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico. Stacks F1230.C835 M Diego Rivera: A Biography..Stacks ND259.R5 A Eva Perón... Stacks F2849.P37 D García Márquez: The Man and His Work.Stacks PQ A73 Z Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca.. Stacks F3442.P776 S x Rigoberta Menchú Controversy...Stacks F Q5 M Santa Anna of Mexico... Stacks F1232.S232 F ONLINE DATABASES Online available at the Booth Library web site Academic Search Complete (full text access to 1,500 scholarly journals) Historical Abstracts (emphasis on world history) Clase and Periodica (access to bibliographic citations from documents published in scholarly journals in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages from 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries) JSTOR (digital archive of more than 1,000 core academic journals) SELECTED JOURNALS Latin American Journal of Economics..Academic Search Complete Latin American Politics and Society EBSCO Military & Government Collection Latin American Research Review.Academic Search Complete Latin Trade..Business Source Elite MEDIA Alexander Street Video (video collections include contemporary news reports on conflicts) Online available at the Booth Library web site, Americas in Transition DVDs F A44x 1982.DVD Che...DVDs PN1997.C4635x.DVD Latin America: Challenges in the 21st Century DVDs HN110.5.A8 L x.DVD Latin American Women Artists DVDs N L x.DVD For assistance, please contact Reference Services at , visit the Reference Desk on the 3000 level of Booth Library or contact the subject bibliographer for history: Bradley Tolppanen, , bptolppanen@eiu.edu.

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