Librarian for Latin American History

Angela Carreño
New York University
Bobst Library, Mezzanine
70 Washington Square So.
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-2606
E-mail: angela.carreno@nyu.edu

NYU Links

• NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
• The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
• NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Collection Development Policy for Latin American Studies

Related Subject Guides

• Latin American Studies

• Latin American Literature

• Spanish and Portuguese Studies

• U.S. Government Documents

• United Nations and International Documents Collection

Research Assistance

• Caribbean and Latin American Videos at the Avery Fisher Center
  [Films A-M] [Films N-Z]
• Ibero-American Microform Sets

Internet Links

• Latin American Collections in the Southeast: LANE
  From the Latin American North East Libraries Consortium
• The Instituto Cervantes in New York
• The Hispanic Society of America
  
  

General History

• The Cambridge History of Latin America. 11 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985-1995.
  Bobst REF 1 F1401.C1834 1985 (also BStacks and New School Ref)
  Authoritative survey of Latin America's history, published in eleven volumes. Each chapter is accompanied by a significant bibliographic essay. Volume 11 compiles and updates the bibliographical essays.

General Histories by Country or Region

• Historia general de Centroamérica. Madrid; [San José de Costa Rica]: Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario; FLACSO, 1993.
  Bobst REF1 F1436.H57 1993
  


• Knight, Franklin W., ed. General History of the Caribbean. 6 vols. London: Macmillan/Unesco Pub., 1997-in process (vol.3 published) (vol. 2 & 6 on order)
  Bobst REF1 and BStacks F2175.G45 1997
  v.1 Autochthonous societies; v. 2 New societies: the Caribbean in the "long" sixteenth century; v. 3 The slave societies of the Caribbean; v. 4 The long nineteenth century; v. 5 The Caribbean in the twentieth Century; v. 6 Methodology and historiography of the Caribbean.
  

General Guides to Historical Literature

• American Historical Association. AHA Guide to Historical Literature. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, c1995.
  Bobst REF1 Z1601.L3225 1992
  See sections 29 on Spain and Portugal; 36 on Native Peoples of the Americas; 37 on Latin America to 1800; and 38 on Latin America since 1800.
• Griffin, Charles C., ed. Latin America: A Guide to the HistoricalLiterature Conference on Latin American History, Publication no. 4. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
  Bobst REF1 F1406.G75 1971
  Arranged by periods and countries, it contains more than 7,000 annotated entries, covering primary and secondary sources. Each section is prepared and introduced by an expert in thefield. Author index.
• Werlich, David P. Research Tools for Latin American Historians: A Select Annotated Bibliography.New York: Garland, 1980.
  Bobst Ref1 Z1601.W47 1980
  "This volume is a classified, annotated bibliography of almost 1,400 reference works, compendiums of source materials, and periodicals useful to Latin American historians" (from author's introduction).

Guides to Historical Literature by Country, Region, or Topic

• Cortés Conde, Roberto, and Stein, Stanley J., eds. Latin America: A Guide to Economic History, 1830-1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
  Bobst REF1 Z7165.L3L32
  Arranged in eight parts by country. Each part, prepared by one or more experts, is introduced by a historiographical essay. Entries are annotated and cross-referenced.
• Dutra, Francis A. A Guide to the History of Brazil, 1500-1822.Santa Barbara, Ca.:ABC-Clio, c1980.
  BStacks Z1686.D87
• Tepaske, John J., ed. Research Guide to Andean History: Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981.
  BStacks Z1656.R47 1981
  An introduction to the principal archives of the central Andean republics as they existed ca. 1975.
• Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
  Bobst REF6 and REF1 Z1595.R47 1985
  A combination historiography and source guide, the intent of the volume is to point to future directions of historical research and identify major resource depositories.

Encyclopedias

• Drescher, Seymour, and Engerman, Stanley L., eds. A Historical Guide to World Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  Bobst REF6 and REF1 HT861.H59 1998
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: London: C. Scribner's Sons; Simon & Schuster; Prentice Hall, c1996.
  Bobst REF 1 F1406.E53 1996
  

General Bibliographies and Indexes

• Handbook of Latin American Studies. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press. 1935 to date.
  Bobst REF 1 Z1605.H23 (Also Law Library and NewSchool REF)
  Selective, annotated subject bibliography of journal articles and monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Originally published in one annual volume. Currently history appears in even-numbered volumes with annotated citations and a brief resumé of trends in the discipline. There is a three year time lag in its publication. (See HAPI or a scholarly journal in the field of interest for more up-to-date publications.)
  
• Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies.Boston: G.K. Hall. 1978 to date.
  Bobst REF 1 Z1610.B52
  Annual guide incorporating the items cataloged during the year for the Benson Latin American Collection, a major Latin American collection, and additional titles from the Library of Congress. Provides access in one alphabet by author,title, and subject. Supplements the Catalog of the Latin American Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (Bobst REF 1 Z1610.T48). See also the online catalog of the Nettie Lee Benson Collection.
• HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Los Angeles: Latin American Center, University of California. 1970 to date.
  HAPI is an annual author and subject index to over 400 journals, in all languages, related to Latin American area studies. Print copies are located in REF 1 of Bobst Library.
  For coverage prior to 1970 see Index to Latin American Periodical Literature, 1929-1960 (Bobst REF 1 Z1601.P19, vols. 1-8 Low Shelves #26) andIndex to Latin American Periodicals: Humanities and Social Sciences,1961-1970 (Bobst REF 1 Z1605.P5, vols. 1-9 Low Shelves #26).
• America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 1982-
  The scope and contents of these databases are identical to those of the printed serials America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts also available in Bobst Ref 1. Although the former, America: History and Life, covers North America, it is essential for the history of the Northern Mexican territories and for coverage of topics related to the history of U.S.- Latin American relations. The latter, Historical Abstracts covers world history from 1450 to the present in over 2000 historical journals published in 50 languages, offering signed abstracts by specialists in the field. Section 3 covers Latin America and the Caribbean.

Biography

• Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica.series 1 and 2. Munchen; New York: K.G. Saur, 1986-1992.
  Bobst Microform Center, Level A MF632 (series 1) and MF632 (series 2)
  A microfiche set, ABEPI is a compilation of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American biographical information from biographical sources published between 1600 and 1950. The arrangement is alphabetical by name of individual. The Indice biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoam&eacure;rica(Bobst REF1 DP58.I52) is an index to the first and second series of the ABEPI. It provides the user with direct access to the bibliographical source either in the original book form or in the microfiche version, giving the fiche number and the number of the frame on which the entry is to be found.
  

Selected Primary Sources and Archival Guides

• Cespedes del Castillo, Guillermo, ed. Textos y documentos de la América Hispanica (1492-1898). Barcelona: Editorial Labor, [1986].
  BStacks DP66.H5573 vol.13.
• Fundación Histórica Tavera
  URL: http://www.tavera.com/tavera/index2.htm
• Fundación Tavera's Bibliografía de fuentes documentales
  URL: http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tavera/
  May need to consult local research libraries for copy.
• Fundación Tavera and UT-LANIC. Guía preliminar de fuentes documentales etnográficas para el estudio de los pueblos indígenas de Iberoamérica.
  Online
• Garcia del Pino, Cesar and Alicia Melis Cappa, comps.Documentos para la historia colonial de Cuba : siglos XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1988.
  BStacks F1779 .D63 1988
• Hanke, Lewis, ed. Guía de las fuentes en el Archivo General de Indias para el estudio de la administración virreinal española en México y en el Perú : 1535-1700. 3 vols. Koln ; Wien : Bohlau, 1977.
  BStacks F1401 .L322 Bd.7
• Hanke, Lewis and Gunnar Mendoza, eds. Guía de las fuentes en hispanoamérica para el estudio de la administración virreinal española en México y en el Perú, 1535-1700. Washington, D.C. : Secretaría General, Organización de los Estados Americanos, 1980.
  BStacks Z1426 .H36
• Hilton, Sylvia L. and Ignacio Gonzalez Casasnovas, eds. Fuentes manuscritas para la historia de Iberoamérica : guía de instrumentos de investigación. Madrid : Fundación MAPFRE America, Instituto Histórico Tavera, c1995.
  Bobst Ref1 Z1609.H53 H55 1995
• Inacia, Ines C. and Tania Regina de Luca.Documentos do Brasil colonial. Sao Paulo : Editora Atica, 1993.
  BStacks F2528 .D63 1993
• Internet Resources on Latin America
  URL: http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/internet.html
  This page provides links to selected Web sites in Latin American studies. Maintained by Tulane University.
• Lockhart, James and Enrique Otte, eds. Letters and People of the Spanish Indies, Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
  BStacks F1411.L58 REF1 / Z663 .32.H54 1994
• Jimenez Codinach, Guadalupe, ed. The Hispanic world, 1492-1898 : a guide to photoreproduced manuscripts from Spain in the collections of the United States, Guam and Puerto Rico.Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., 1994.
  Bobst Ref1 Z663 .32.H54 1994
• Lockhart, James, Frances Berdan and Arthur J.O. Anderson, eds. The Tlaxcalan actas : a compendium of the records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala, 1545-1627. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.
  BStacks F1221.T56 L63 1986
• Lockhart, James, ed. We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993.
  BStacks F1219.73.W4 1993
• Parry, John H. and Robert G. Keith, eds. New Iberian world : a documentary history of the discovery and settlement of Latin America to the early 17th century. 5 vols. New York: Times Books; Hector & Rose, 1984.
  Bobst REF1 F1411.I18 1984
• Tesoros de los Archivos Estatales de España
  URL: http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/arnac/