Latin America – A Selected Bibliography GPO Access

 

 

Reference Resources – Campbell Library – Rowan University

 

Ref  D 843 .E46 1999 Vol. 2 – Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II – “Cambodia-Haiti”

 

Ref   E 81 .R35 1999 – Indian War Sites:  a Guidebook to Battlefields, Monuments, and Memorials, State By State with Canada and Mexico

 

Ref  E 184 .A1 E58 1998 Vol. 7 – Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, – “Acoma, Battle of Mexico…”

 

Ref  E 184 .S75 L357 1996 – Latino Encyclopedia

 

Ref  F 1216 .F58 2003 – Fodor’s Mexico

 

Ref  F 1218.6 .A73 2001 – Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America:  an Encyclopedia

 

Ref  F 1218.6 .O95 2001 – Oxford Encyclopedia of MesoAmerican Cultures

 

Ref  F 1234 .D364 2002 – Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico

 

Ref  F 1401 .S71 2006 – South American Handbook

 

Ref  F 1410 .E56 2002 – Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics

 

Ref  F  1410 .R395 2000 – Reference Guide to Latin American History

 

Ref  F 1613 .F63  2003 – Fodor’s Caribbean

 

Ref  F 1613 .F6 2003  – Fodor’s Bahamas

 

Ref  G 1551 .S1 H2 2003 – Historical Atlas of Central America

 

Ref  GN 562 .S74 1999 – Dictionary of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology

 

Ref  HB 871 .N43 1999, Vol. 2 – Encyclopedia of Global Population and Demographics – “Jamaica-Zimbabwe”

 

Ref  HM 263 .E53 1998 Vol. 2 – Encyclopedia of Propaganda – “Honduras-El Salvador War – Russia:  1855-1918”

Ref  HV 6431 .E53 1997 Vol. 2  – Encyclopedia of World Terrorism, Vol. 2 – “Terrorism in Latin America’

 

Ref  JF 51 .D465 2000 – Encyclopedia of World Political Systems –  chapters on Central American and the Caribbean – and - South America

 

Ref  ML 100 .G233 W6  Vol. 2 – Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 2 – “South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean”

 

Ref  ML 105 .F445 L17 – Latin American Classical Composers:  a Biographical Dictionary

 

Ref  Z 1605 .H23 – Handbook of Latin American Studies

 

 

 

Government Document  Resources – Room 245 Campbell Library

 

*****Those documents with a call number concluding with (Electronic Resource) are documents only available online*****

 

General

 

A 1.75:656/ – Latin America’s Big Three Sugar Producers in Transition:  Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, 1992

 

A 88.2:2002011808  (Electronic Resource)

The Panama Canal in Transition – Implications for U.S. Agriculture, 2000

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18101

 

AE 2.109  (microfiche) – Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

 

AE 2.114:  – A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1918.  11 vols.

 

AE 2.114:  - Public Papers of the Presidents

 

C 3.2:W 84/4 – Women of the World:  Latin America and the Caribbean

 

D 5.402:IN 7 – Latin American Insurgencies – presents papers from three meetings held in Spring 1984

 

D 5.402:581/12 – Evolving U.S. Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1990 (microfiche)

 

 

D 5.417:47 - New Security Relations in the Americas, 1995

 

D 101.146:C  43 (Electronic Resource)

U.S. National Security Implications of Chinese Involvement in Latin America

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS61394

 

D 101.146/9:Sh 1 (Electronic Resource)

Shadows of Things Past and Images of the Future, Lessons for the

Insurgencies in Our Midst

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS63249

 

D 101.146:2001037748 (Electronic Resource)

The Troubled Path to the Pentagon’s Rules on Media Access to the Battlefield

Grenada to Today

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS12816

 

D 214.13:C 19 – A Skillful Show of Strength:  U.S. Marines in the Caribbean, 1991-1996

 

HE 20.7614: - Smoking and Health in the Americas

 

I 19.4/2:1187 (Electronic Resource)

Surviving a Tsunami – Lessons From Chile, Hawaii, and Japan

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS22188

 

I 49.2:M 31/8 – Management and Monitoring of … Birds and Their Habitats in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

JX 235 .M7 1970 (microfiche) – Moore, John Bassett.  A Digest of International Law.  8 vols.

 

L 29.2:C 43 – Forced Labor:  the Prostitution of Children, 1996

 

L 29.16: (no) – Foreign Labor Trends – publications prepared by the American Embassy in each country which describe and examine significant developments

 

PR 40.8:B 52/C 33 – Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, 2 volumes, 1984

 

PREX 3.15: (yr) – World Factbook

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS552

 

S 1.1: - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861-1949.  (Library has microfiche to 1899; book holdings 1933-   .  No volume issues for 1869.

     Look for volumes on “The American Republics”, volumes for 1961-63 (Cuba), and 1964-68, volumes XXXI and XXXII.

S 1.2:C 33/6 (microfiche) – Negotiations in Central America:  1981-1987, 1987

 

S1.3/5 – U.S. Department of State Dispatch (formerly U.S. Department of State Bulletin).  Library has 1990-1999.

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1701  or http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu

later issues http://www.state.gov

 

S 1.71/2 – American Foreign Policy, 1950-1955:  Basic Documents.  2 vols.

S 1.71/2: - American Foreign Policy, 1956-1969

 

S 1.71/4:982 – Latin America and the Caribbean:  the Paths to Democracy, 1987

 

S 1.71/4:1007 – Central America At a Critical Juncture, 1987

 

S 1.71/4:1010 – Power in the Service of Peace in Central America, 1987

 

S 1.71/4:1071 – Policies for the Americas in the 1990s, 1988

 

S 1.123: (no) – Background Notes

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

 

S 1.129:148 – U.S. and Central America – implementing the National Bipartisan Commission Report, 1986

 

S9.12 (no) – United States Treaties and Other International Agreements,

1950-present

 

S 9.12/2 – Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949.  15 vols.

 

S 9.14 (no) – Treaties in Force (Library retains latest edition)

 

S 18.2:C 19/2 – Latin America and the Caribbean:  selected economic and social data

 

Y 3.IN 8/25:2 C68 – Getting Ahead Collectively:  Grassroots Experiences in Latin America, 1984

 

Y 3.IN 8/25:2 D 62 – Guide to NGO Directories: how to find over 20,000 nongovernmental organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1995

 

Y 3.M 58/2:2 M 58/2 – Unauthorized Migration:  Addressing the Root Causes, 1990

 

Y 4.F 76/1 and Y 4.IN  – Hearings from U.S. House Committee on International Relations and House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

Y 4.F 76 – Hearings from U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

 

Y 4.F76/2:L52 – Legislative History of the Committee on Foreign Relations

    (Hearings from committees of both the House and the Senate may be found by searching in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.)

Z 1223.Z7.H22 – Index to United States Documents Relating to Foreign Affairs, 1828-1861

 

Argentina

 

C 61.2:C 43 – Chile and Argentina:  Environmental Technologies Export Market Plan, 1994

 

D 5.402:AR 5/2/958-82 – Argentina Foreign Policy and World Events: 1958-1982

 

D 5.402:AR 5/4 (Electronic Resource)

Argentine Civil-Military Relations From Alfonsin to Menem

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS31823

 

Bolivia

 

Y 3.IN 8/25:15/15/1 – Grassroots Development 15/1:  “Women’s popular education in Bolivia,” pp. 26-34, 1991

 

Y 3.IN8/25:2 G 76/3 – What to Think About Cooperatives:  a Guide from Bolivia, 1983

 

Brazil

 

D 5.402:B 73 – Brazil and the Vital South Atlantic

 

D 5.409:84-1 - The United States and Brazil:  opening a new dialogue

 

L 29.16:B 93 – Brazil—Foreign Labor Trends Report, 2002

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS59247

 

Chile

 

D 5.402:AN 8 – Antarctica:  Chile’s Claim

 

PREX 3.2:2001001749 (Electronic Resource)

CIA Activities in Chile

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS9896

 

Y 3.IN 8/25:15/15/2 – Grassroots Development 14/2: “Living with the Land:  Ethnicity in Chile,” pp. 12-20, 1990

 

Colombia

 

Y 3.IN 8/25:15/15/1 – Grassroots Development 15/1:  “Responsiveness and Responsibility,” pp. 35-37, 1990

 

Y 3.IN 8/25:15/16/2 – Grassroots Development 16/2:  “The Art of Association:  NGO’s and Civil Society in Columbia”, 1991

 

Cuba

 

D 1.2:C 91/2 (Electronic Resource)

NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS23469

 

D 201.2:2002010542 (Electronic Resource)

The History of Guantanamo Bay

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/LPS17563

 

PREX 3.2:C 89/Pts. 102 (Electronic Resource)

Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation and Associated Documents

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1069

 

PREX 3.10/7:CR84-12285 (microfiche) – Directory of the Republic of Cuba, 1984

 

S 1.71/4:1050 – U.S. – Cuba Migration Agreement:  Resolving Mariel, 1988

 

S 1.71/5:C 89/2  (Electronic Resource)

Human Rights in Cuba:  an update

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS64443

 

Y 3.B 78/2:1 – Report By the Advisory Board for Radio Broadcasting to Cuba

 

Y 4.F 76/1:C 89/16 – Consideration of the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:C 61/2 – Clinton Administration’s Reversal on U.S. Immigration Policy Toward Cuba

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:C 89/10 – The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

El Salvador

 

D 5.402:EL 1s – El Salvador At War:  An Oral History, 1988

 

S 1.114/3:AU 8 – Authoritarian Regimes in Transition, 1987

 

Y 4.F 76/1:T 28 – Comparison of U.S. Administration Testimony and Reports with 1993 U.N. Truth Commission Report on El Salvador, 1993

 

Grenada

 

D 5.2:OP 2/3 (Electronic Resource)

Operation Urgent Fury:  the Planning and Execution of Joint Operations in

Granada, 12 October-2 November 1983

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS48961

 

S 1.2:G 86 – Maurice Bishop’s “Line of March” Speech, September 13, 1982

 

S 1.2:G 86/2 – Grenada Documents:  an Overview and Selection – provides a cross-section of captured documents providing a preliminary picture of Grenada during the rule of Maurice Bishop and the Leftist New Jewel Movement from April 1979 through October 1983

 

Haiti

 

S 1.3/5:5/29 – Dispatch (U.S. State Department), July 18, 1994, p. 484 – “Human Rights Situation in Haiti

 

Y 4.F 76/2:S.hrg. 108-567 – U.S. Policy toward Haiti, 1994

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:H 12 – U.S. Policy and Activities in Haiti, 1995

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:H 12/3 – Haiti:  the Situation After the Departure of the U.S. Contingent From UNMIH, 1996

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:H 12/4 – Haiti:  Human Rights and Policy Issues, 1996

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:H 88/32 – Human Rights Violations At the Port-Au Prince Penitentiary, 1995

 

Y 4.J 89/2:S.prt.102-87 – Haitian Democracy and Refugees:  Problems and Prospects, 1992

 

 

 

 

Mexico

 

C 61.2:M 57/4 – Mexico:  Environmental Technologies Export Market Plan, 1994

 

D 5.417:30 – Peace Operations:  a Comparison of Somalia and Haiti, 1995

 

D301.82.7:W 19/3 (Electronic Resource)

A Preliminary to War:  the  1-st Aero Squadron and the Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1916

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS47825

 

ED 1.331/2:EDO-RC-02-5  (Electronic Resource)

Schooling in Mexico: a Brief Guide for U.S. Educators

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS27937

 

PREX  3.10/7:LDA91-12530 (microfiche) – Mexico:  Key Players in Free Trade Agreement Talks, 1991

 

Y 3.IN 8/25:2 IN 8/4 – A Limited Inventory of NGO’s on the Mexican – United States Border, 1996

 

Y 3.M 58/2:2 M58/2 – Unauthorized Migration:  Addressing the Root Causes, 1990

 

Y 3.T 22/2:2 M57 – U.S. – Mexico Trade:  Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:M 57/3 – Mexico Economic Crisis, 1995

 

Y 4.P 84/10:99-60 (microfiche) – Demographic Trends of Mexico, 1986

 

Nicaragua

 

S 1.2:H 88/7 – Human Rights in Nicaragua Under the Sandinistas, 1986

 

S 1.2:SA 5/4 – Inside the Sandinista Regime, 1986

 

S 1.2:SA 5/5 – Sandinista Prisons:  a Tool of Intimidation, 1986

 

Y 1,1.8:100-433 – Iran-Contra Affair:  Report of the Congressional Committee Investigating the Affair, 1994

 

Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt. 102-102 – Nicaragua Today:  a Republican Staff Report, 1992

 

Y 4.IN 8/20:100-3-11 – Iran-Contra Investigation.  8 volumes, 1988

 

 

Panama

 

AE 2.106/3:35 – Code of Federal Regulations, Title 35:  Panama Canal

 (library retains latest edition)

 

D 5.2:P 19 – Operation Just Cause:  the planning and execution of joint

operations in Panama, February 1988-January 1990

 

D 114.2:P 19/3 – Operation Just Cause:  the incursion into Panama

 

Y 4.AR 5.2:P 19 (microfiche) – The Invasion of Panama:  How Many Innocent Bystanders Perished?

 

Y 4.IN 8/16:P 19/3 – U.S. Strategic Interests in Panama, 1995

 

 

 

 

Electronic Resources

 

Background notes – alphabetical by country – short overview of each country.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

 

Census data

   Aging in the Americas in the 21st century

   http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/agingam.html

  

   World population information

   http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

 

   Population trends, Bolivia

   http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

 

   Population trends, Peru

   http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

 

Central Intelligence Agency, Electronic reading room – includes copies of classified documents released through the Freedom of Information Act – users can search by country, topic, etc. on this page.

http://www.foia.cia.gov/

 

Country reports on human rights practices

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm

 

 

Country reports on economic policy and trade practices – information on the extent of U.S. economic involvement in other countries,  1993-2001

http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/rpts/eptp/

 

Department of Commerce, market access and compliance – includes a search page for finding trade agreements between the United States and foreign countries and links to information on trade with specific countries.

http://trade.gov/mac/

 

Department of Defense. Southern Command -  has responsibility for Latin America, the Caribbean, and Central America

http://www.southcom.mil/home/

 

Department of Energy, country analysis briefs – provides an overview of the energy situation in major non-OPEC oil exporters, which includes twelve Latin American nations.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html

 

Department of State

   Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs – advised the Secretary of State and

   guides the operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in Latin America and

   the Caribbean.

   http://www.state.gov/p/wha/

 

   Summit of the Americas – since 1994, the U.S. State Department has been the

   informal secretariat.

   http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rt/soa/

 

Foreign relations of  the United States – the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/

 

Human rights in Latin America – documents on human rights in Latin America, 1964-1995.

http://www.foia.cia.gov/human_rights.asp

 

International religious freedom report – annual report includes 192 country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2002/

 

Library of Congress

   Hispanic Reading Room – assists researchers using the large collection of

   Luso-Hispanic materials throughout the Library of Congress and in their online

   collection.

   http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/

 

   Handbook of Latin American Studies – a bibliography on Latin America

   published since 1935.

   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/

 

   Country Studies – a series produced by the Federal Research Division of the

   Library of Congress which describes and anaylzes the political, economic,

   social and national Security systems of countries.

   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

   also, check Campbell Library online catalog

 

Patterns of global terrorism – a yearly review of international acts of terrorism

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/

 

United States Congress, House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere – includes selected witness testimony and statements on international relations in the western hemisphere.

http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/index.htm

 

United States Congress, Senate Foreign Relations Committee – has jurisdiction over matters relating to national security policy, foreign policy, and international economic policy.

http://foreign.senate.gov/

 

United States Geological Survey, International Minerals Information - page for Latin America with links to minerals information on specific countries

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/latin.html

 

United States Trade and Development Agency, Latin American and Caribbean Regional Team – works to advance economic development and U.S. commercial interests Latin American and Caribbean countries.

http://www.ustda.gov/USTDA/USTDA%20By%20Region/latinamerica.htm

 

United States Trade  Representative, Western Hemisphere – links to Latin American countries.

http://www.ustr.gov/World_Regions/Americas/Section_Index.html

 

White House, Office of National Drug Control Policy – has an international section that discusses cooperation with foreign countries on drug control issues.

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/international/index.html

 

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Gateway Websites - - - Internet Sources for Latin America

 

   UNESCO – Latin America and the Caribbean

   http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.php-   URL_ID=2494&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

   University of Texas at Austin - maintains a Latin American site which

   Includes information on radical groups such as the Zapatistas in Mexico.

   http://lanic.utexas.edu

 

   University of Texas at El Paso  - Center of Inter-American and Border

   Studies

   http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=14139

 

Historical Data and Archives

 

    Historical Text Archive – site contains archival information, includes section

    on colonial Latin American history.

    http://historicaltextarchive.com

 

    National Archives of Latin American nation states

    http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/National_Archives/

 

Journals

 

Doc. Y 3:IN 8/25:  -  Grassroots Development, the Journal of the Inter-American Foundation (also called In Review)

http://www.iaf.gov/site_map/site_map_en.asp?sitemap=4

 

JStor

Hispania, 1917-2000

Hispanic American Historical Review, 1918-1999

      (plus links to recent content 2000-2004)

Journal of Latin American Studies, 1969-2000

Latin American Music Review, 1980-2002

Latin American Perspectives, 1974-2002   

Latin American Politics and Society, 2001-2002

Latin American Research Review, 1965-2002

Journal of Inter-American Studies, 1959-1969

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1970-2000

  

  

September 2006

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