Latin American Collection at Yale University

Research Guides

This is a selection of general research guides, directories and handbooks pertaining to Latin America and the Caribbean. Consult with a reference librarian for information about additional reference materials.

Almanaque de la música latinoamericana
Los archivos de la historia de América: período colonial español
Brazil in Reference Books, 1965-1988
Business Information Sources of Latin America and the Caribbean
The Cambridge History of Latin America
The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas
Caribbean Islands Handbook
Changing Perspectives in Latin American Studies
Directorio latinoamericano: Latin American Directory
Economic and Social Progress in Latin America
A Filmography of the Third World, 1976-1983
Funding for Research, Study and Travel: Latin America and the Caribbean
Guia a las reseñas de libros de y sobre Hispano-América
Guide to Latin American and Caribbean Census Materia
Guide to Latin American Pamphlets from the Yale University Library
Guide to Materials on Latin America in the National Archives of the United States
A guide to the history of Brazil, 1500-1822 : the literature in English
Guide to the Political Parties of South America
Haiti, a basic reference book : general information on Haiti
A Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean National Archives
Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America
Handbook of South American Indians
História da história do Brasil
História geral da civilizacão brasileira
Historiography of Latin America: A guide to historical writing, 1500-1800
Information on Music: a handbook of reference sources in European languages
Latin America and Caribbean : a directory of resources
Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record
Latin America and the Caribbean: a critical guide to research sources
Latin America in Basic Historical Collections
Latin America, International Relations: a guide to information sources
Latin American History : a teaching atlas
Latin American Jewish Studies: an annotated guide to the literature
Latin American Jewry: a research guide
Latin American military history : an annotated bibliography
Latin American Political Movements
Latin American Scholarship since World War II
Latin American Studies: a basic guide to sources
Mexico & Central American Handbook
New Iberian World: a documentary history of the discovery and settlement of Latin America to the early 17th Century
People and issues in Latin American history : from independence to the present ; sources and interpretations
Political parties of the Americas and the Caribbean
Political parties of the Americas : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies
Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean
Research Tools for Latin American Historians: a select, annotated bibliography
Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C. for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South America, Central America, and the Caribbean
South American Handbook
Spanish Language Reference Books: an annotated bibliography
Tinker Guide to Latin American and Caribbean Policy and Scholarly Resources in Metropolitan New York
The United States in Latin America : a historical dictionary
Women, culture, and politics in Latin America
Women and change in Latin America

Almanaque de la música latinoamericana (Frank M. Figueroa. St. Petersburg, FL : Pillar Publications, c1996. 121 p.)
SML, MUSIC LIBRARY / ML199 F475 A4+ 1996
Los archivos de la historia de América: período colonial español: Though nearly 30 years old, these two volumes remain the best single source for an introduction to the primary sources of colonial Latin America.
Brazil in Reference Books, 1965-1989 (Ann Kane Hartness. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991.): A very thorough and well-annotated bibliography of separately published reference works on Brazil.
Business Information Sources of Latin America and the Caribbean (Ellen G. Shaffer, comp. Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States, 1982.)
SSL / HF3230.5 +C583 1982 (LC)
The Cambridge History of Latin America (Leslie Bethell, ed. [New York]: Cambridge University Press, 1984-.): A benchmark publication for the 1980s and 1990s. Each volume features the writing of established scholars in their fields. Each chapter is accompanied by a significant bibliographic essay. v.1-2. Colonial Latin America -- v.3. From Independence to c. 1870 -- v.4-5. c.1870 to 1930 -- v.6. Latin America since 1930 : Economy, society and politics -- v.7. Latin America since 1930: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean -- v. 8. Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America -- v.10. Latin America since 1930: ideas, culture, and society -- v.11. Bibliographic essays.
The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas ( Cambridge, England ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996-.)
Caribbean Islands Handbook (Bath, England : Trade & Travel Publications, 1989-. Annual)
SML / F2171.3 C365 (LC)
Changing Perspectives in Latin American Studies: insights from six disciplines (Christopher Mitchell. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1988. 238 p.): Reviews the current state of Latin American studies in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and literature. A useful introduction to the state of each discipline and a review of recent scholarship and topics of current research interest.
Directorio latinoamericano: Latin American Directory (Quito: EDIEC Latina, 1985. 4 vols.): An excellent source for names and addresses of about 15,000 government agencies, political bodies, social science research institutes, and universities.
Economic and Social Progress in Latin America (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, 1961-. Annual.)
A Filmography of the Third World, 1976-1983: an annotated list of 16mm films (Helen W. Cyr. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985. 275 p.): Continued by The Third World in Film and Video, 1983-1990.
Funding for Research, Study and Travel: Latin America and the Caribbean (Karen Cantrell, et al., eds. Phoenix, Arizona: The Oryx Press, 1987. 301 p.): A guide to sources for research money. Lists 393 programs providing sponsored research, study, or travel support for students and scholars. Includes a bibliography of additional printed sources and online databases.
Guia a las reseñas de libros de y sobre Hispano-América: A guide to reviews of books from and about Hispanic America (Detroit: Blaine Ehridge-Books, 1960-1964- Annual.): The most comprehensive index to book reviews on Latin American topics. Indexes and includes excerpts of reviews appearing in over 700 sources. Reviews sometimes appear 3 and 4 years after the date of publication. Covers books published from 1960 forward. Slow to be published.
Guide to Latin American and Caribbean Census Material: A Bibliography and Union List (Carole Travis, ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990. 739 p.): Covering 40 countries, colonies, or other political jurisdictions, citations list the earliest known published censuses through 1979. Includes all kinds of censuses (e.g. population, housing, agriculture, schools).
Guide to Latin American Pamphlets from the Yale University Library (Yale University Library. N.Y.: Clearwater, 1985. 7 vols.): Subject catalog of pamphlets, includes 6,300 pamphlets on México, 2,000 on Perú, and 1,325 on Central and South America. Covers a wide range of subjects (e.g., playbills, speeches, biographies) on social, political, and economic conditions in Latin America from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Serves as a guide to the microfilm collection Latin American Pamphlets from the Yale University Library.
Guide to Materials on Latin America in the National Archives of the United States (George S. Ulibarri. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1988. 489 p.): A detailed introduction to the National Archives' holdings of Latin American materials in all formats. Arranged by branch (legislative, executive, judicial) and by department, this well-organized guide describes each set of records in detail. An excellent source for the study of official U.S. involvement in Latin America.
A guide to the history of Brazil, 1500-1822 : the literature in English (Francis A. Dutra. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c1980. 625 p.)
Guide to the Political Parties of South America (Jean-Pierre Arthur Bernard. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1973. 574 p.): Essays on the historical background and party profiles constitute the major part of this work.
Haiti, a basic reference book : general information on Haiti (Patricia Schutt-Aine, ed. Miami, Fla., U.S.A. : Librairie Au Service de la Culture, c1994. 388 p.)
A Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean National Archives: Guía de los archivos nacionales de América Latina y el Caribe (Ann Keith Nauman. Detroit: Blaine Ethridge Books, 1983. 127 p.): Contains brief entries for 56 national archives in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s (David W. Dent, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990. 448 p.): Country essays on research trends by area specialists. Valuable as an introduction to major scholars and research topics.
Handbook of South American Indians (Julian Haynes Steward, ed. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1946-59. 7 vols.): A pioneering work, dated but retains its usefulness. A major contribution to the native cultures of South America.
História da história do Brasil (José Honório Rodrigues. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, [1979-88]. 3 vols.): Designed as a concluding series of volumes on Brazilian historiography which began in 1949 with the author's Teoria da história do Brasil and A pesquisa histórica no Brasil.
História geral da civilizacão brasileira (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, and Boris Fausto, eds. São Paulo: Difusão Européia do Livro, 1960-1984.): Contains three parts: I, A época colonial; II., O Brasil monárquico; III., O Brasil repúblicano. The best collaborative history, covering the entire sweep of Brazilian history, 1500-1964, with contributions by leading historians from Brazil and abroad.
Historiography of Latin America: A guide to historical writing, 1500-1800 (A. Curtis Wilgus. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. 333 p.): A selected biobibliography of historians of Latin America, arranged first by century and then by region or country as well as by topic. Authors' biographies are arranged alphabetically within each section.
Information on Music: a handbook of reference sources in European languages (Guy A. Marco. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1975-.): Volume 2 covers the Americas and is knowledgeably annotated. Chapter 3 (pp. 94-210) covers Latin America. A comprehensive bibliographical resource and important for research in this field.
Latin America and Caribbean : a directory of resources (Thomas P. Fenton and Mary J. Heffron, eds. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books ; London : Zed Books, c1986. 142 p.): Designed to provide information on various aspects of Latin American and Caribbean peoples' struggle for social justice, this work lists organizations, resources audiovisual works, and publications.
Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981- . Annual.): A yearbook recording recent political, economic, and social developments in each country. Includes a good overview for each country with information on social, economic, and political conditions, foreign affairs, statistical tables, and a bibliography of recent writings.
Latin America and the Caribbean: a critical guide to research sources (Paula H. Covington, David Block...[et al.] eds. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.): An important sourcebook that identifies reference and bibliographic works central to Latin American research. Contains 15 chapters, each providing an introductory essay and a bibliographic section. Coverage includes the social sciences and humanities. Indispensable source for Latin Americanists.
Latin America in Basic Historical Collections : a working guide (Russell H. Bartley... [et al.]. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, [1972]. 217 p.): A compilation of brief descriptions of repositories throughout the world principally archives and libraries holding Latin American historical materials.
Latin America, International Relations: a guide to information sources (John J. Finan. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1981. 236 p.): Consists of three parts: (1) bibliographies and aids; (2) general, including intergovernmental organizations, security, scientific, and technological concerns; and (3) countries.
Latin American History : a teaching atlas (Cathryn L. Lombardi, John V. Lombardi and K. Lynn Stoner. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.): Reproductions and original cartography designed to show natural environment, history, and politics of Latin America.
Latin American Jewish Studies: an annotated guide to the literature (Judith Laikin Elkin and Ana Lya Sater. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. 238 p): Annotated bibliography of 800 books, articles, dissertations, and chapters of books, published 1970-86.
Latin American Jewry: a research guide (Martin Howard Sable. Hebrew Union College Press, 1978. 633 p.): Unannotated bibliography of 4,857 entries on books and articles in Spanish, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages. Covers 1492 to 1974.
Latin American military history : an annotated bibliography (David G. LaFrance and Errol D. Jones, eds. New York : Garland, 1992. 734 p.)
Latin American Political Movements (Ciarán O Maoláin. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985. 287 p.): Arranged by country with groups listed alphabetically therein. Includes right and left wing organizations, some labor unions, guerrilla movements, and less formally constituted bodies such as death squads.
Latin American Scholarship since World War II: trends in history, political science, literature, geography, and economics (Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo and Michael C. Meyers, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1971]. 335 p.): Essays on scholarship and research trends in various disciplines. Includes essays on themes, institutions, periods, and regions (e.g., colonial Brazil, the military, economic integration).
Latin American Studies: a basic guide to sources (Robert A. McNeil, ed. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990. 458 p.): A basic guide to research in the social sciences and humanities, this textbook serves to introduce students to a range of sources and research techniques relating to Latin American Studies.
Mexico & Central American Handbook (Bath, England : Trade & Travel Publications, c1990-. Annual)
SML / F1209 M4863 (LC)
New Iberian World: a documentary history of the discovery and settlement of Latin America to the early 17th Century (John H. Parry. New York: Times Books; Hector and Rose, 1984. 5 vols.): A compilation of documents in English translation (many done specifically for this work) of Iberian-language sources which treat the background, discovery, and conquest of the Americas, ca. 1250-1600.
People and issues in Latin American history : from independence to the present ; sources and interpretations (Louis Lewis Hanke and Jane M. Rausch, eds. New York : M. Wiener Pub., c1990. 353 p.)
Political parties of the Americas and the Caribbean : a reference guide (John Coggins and D.S. Lewis, eds. Harlow, Essex, U.K. : Longman ; Detroit, Mich., USA : 1992 341 p.)
Political parties of the Americas : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies (Robert Jackson. Alexander, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. 2 vols.): Essays discuss each nation's history from the perspective of political parties; thereafter individual parties with historical detail, leadership and ideological positions appear. Supplemented by Political parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies, 1992.
Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean (Kenneth J. Grieb, ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. 431 p.): Identifies and describes the archival and library resources relating to Central America and the Caribbean, located in the United States, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean and Central America.
Research Tools for Latin American Historians: a select, annotated bibliography (David P. Werlich. New York: Garland, 1980. 269 p.): This clearly organized work contains a classified, annotated bibliography of 1,347 reference works and other sources useful to historians of Latin America.
Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C. for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Michael Grow. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. 346 p.): Surveys collections and organizations in the Washington DC area of interest to Latin Americanists. Includes embassies, government agencies, research centers.
South America, Central America, and the Caribbean (London: Europa Publications, 1985-.): Issued periodically, this handbook surveys political and economic conditions of Latin America and the Caribbean. Each country entry contains a directory of information on the government, constitution, heads of state, organizations, news agencies, radio and television, banks, publishers, etc.
South American Handbook (Bath, England: Trade and Travel Publications, Lmtd., 1924-. Annual)
SML; CCL, Reference / F1401 S68 (LC)
Spanish Language Reference Books: an annotated bibliography (Berkeley: Chicano Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, 1989. 45 p.): A guide to general reference sources written in Spanish. Lists and describes general sources such as directories, encyclopedias, and bibliographies.
Tinker Guide to Latin American and Caribbean Policy and Scholarly Resources in Metropolitan New York (Ronald G. Hellman and Beth Kempler, eds. New York: City University of New York, 1988. 217 p.): Includes institutions, associations, chambers of commerce, government offices, libraries, bookstores, publications, and media sources in New York City.
The United States in Latin America : a historical dictionary (David Shavit. New York : Greenwood Press, 1992. 471 p.)
Women, culture, and politics in Latin America (Emilie Bergmann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 269 p.): The conference papers of the Seminar on Feminism and Culture in Latin America. Papers survey feminism, women in politics, women and literature, etc. Extensive bibliographical references.
Women and change in Latin America (June C. Nash and Helen Icken Safa, eds. South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1986. 372 p.): This compendium of new scholarship describes the Latina's struggles for independence in a machismo dominated world. Includes a survey of the literature written between 1975 and 1985.

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