Native American Law Guide

Native American Research Law Guide

Purpose

Use this guide to find scholarly sources on the Colonial (1492- c.1820) and National (c. 1820-date) periods of Latin American and Caribbean history, as well North America native history.

The written history of Latin America did not begin with Columbus’s 1492 voyage. By 250 C.E., the indigenous Maya civilization of Lowland Guatemala had developed a fully functional writing system. Antecedents of this system were present in other parts of Mesoamerica as early as 600 B.C.E. Explore this much older and longer period of “Latin American” history in Ancient Mesoamerica.

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Reference Books

Reference works, located primarily on the 1st floor of Paley Library, in the new Library Depository, or online, serve as excellent starting points for research into the history of Latin America and the Caribbean.
•Armed Forces of Latin America: Their Histories, Development, Present Strength and Military Potential. c1984 [print]
•Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. c1985 [print]
•Cambridge History of Latin America. c1984- [print]
•Chronology of World Slavery [ABC-CLIO | print] ◦chapter on Latin America

•Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia [ABC-CLIO | print] ◦map of Spanish Empire in the Western Hemisphere (date of independence from Spain in parentheses)

•Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization. c1980 [print]
•Encyclopedia of Latin-American History. c1956 and c1968 [print]
•Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. c1996 [print]
•Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, & Culture. c1997 [print]
•Historical dictionaries for various Latin American and Caribbean countries published between 1972 and 2005 [print]
•Latin America: A Guide to the Historical Literature. c1971 [ACLS | print]
•The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru. c1972 [ACLS | print]
•New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. c2005 [Gale | print]

A selection of relevant articles:

◦Anticolonialism: Latin America
◦Colonialism: Latin America
◦Creolization: Caribbean
◦Dictatorship in Latin America
◦The City: Latin America
•Race and Ethnic Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Historical Dictionary and Bibliography. c1980 [print]
•A Reference Guide to Latin American History. c2000 [print]
•The United States in Latin America: A Historical Dictionary. c1992 [print]

Circulating Books

Search Diamond, the Libraries’ online catalog, to find books (mostly print, some eBooks) about Latin American and Caribbean history. Begin with titles assigned to the following Library of Congress Subject Headings.
•Latin America — History
•Women — Latin America — History
•Country Name — History
•Brazil — History
•Cuba — History
•Haiti — History
•Jamaica — History
•Mexico — History
•Peru — History

Book Databases

The databases listed below provide access to full-text eBooks. Please keep in mind that most academic history titles are available only in print. As indicated above, search Diamond to find print works owned by Temple Libraries.

ABC-Clio eBooks (full-text resource): Consisting mostly of reference works, this database nonetheless provides access to two relevant book titles:
• Latin America and the Caribbean: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues. c2004
•Pop Culture Latin America! c2005

ACLS History E-Book Project (full-text resource): Over 1,000 full-text “books of high quality in the field of history”. Search by keyword or the same LC subject headings suggested above.

Selected list of Latin American history titles:

•Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831. c1992
•Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826. c1983
•Church and State in Latin America: A History of Politico-Ecclesiastical Relations. c1934
•Conquest of Mexico, by William Prescott. c1992

Note: Prescott’s work, written in the 19th Century, remains the standard account of the Conquest. A more recent title contender is Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico, by Hugh Tomas ( c1993). Primary-source Spanish accounts of this event can be found in Letters from Mexico by Hernan Cortes (c1971), and in the English translation of Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espana [True History of the Conquest of New Spain], by Bernal Diaz (c1963). Mexica and Tlaxcalan accounts are available in Saints and Warriors: Tlaxcalan Perspectives on the Conquest of Tenochtitlan (c2004); Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (c2000); We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (c1993); and especially in Miguel Leon Portilla’s classic work, The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (c1962).

•Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century. c1989
•The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924. c1980
•The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940. c1990
•Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda. c1963
•The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938. c1992
•Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834. c1995

CIAO Books (Columbia International Affairs Online) (full-text resource): Selected list of titles related to Latin America:
•Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism. c1999
•Forecasting Mexico’s Democratic Transition: Scenarios for Policymakers. c2003
•When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998. c1999

netLibrary (full-text resource): The premier source for full-text electronic books; search by keyword or the same LC subject headings suggested above.

Selected list of Latin American history titles:
•Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life & Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century Havana. c1998
•The French in Central America: Culture and Commerce, 1820-1930. c2000
•The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. c1993
•Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos. c1995
•History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott.
•In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco Leon De La Barra and the Mexican Revolution. c2000
•Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption. c1999
•Peronism and Argentina. c1998
•Slavery & Abolition in Early Republican Peru. c1992
•Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World. c1995

Find Articles

Finding journal articles at TU Libraries typically consists of two distinct steps: 1) Use a database (below) or print index to find article citations; 2) With citations in hand, use Journal Finder to locate full-text articles online or in the physical library. Journal Finder provides direct links to the appropriate full-text database(s) and/or Diamond.

The available databases have been divided into two broad categories based upon relative importance to the study of Latin American and Caribbean history.

  • Essential Databases: Core resources for accessing the secondary literature in Latin American History.
  • Related Databases: Resources that index scholarly journals, general interest periodicals, ephemera, and primary-source documents potentially relevant to Latin American History.

Essential Databases

Core resources for accessing the secondary literature in Latin American History.

  • Bibliografia Mesoamericana: A groundbreaking indexing project jointly developed between the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum Library. The Mesoamerican Bibliography provides access to the scholarly literature on ancient Mesoamerica and colonial Mexico and Guatemala published since 1960. “Coverage includes books, edited volumes, festschrifts, journal articles, essays in collected works, dissertations and theses, obituaries (2 pages +), CD-ROMs, audio and video tapes, and films pertaining to Mesoamerica. It will not include book reviews, sheet maps, working papers and other gray literature, juvenile literature, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, and other unpublished materials.”
  • Caribbean Index (CARINDEX): “CARINDEX is an index to the contents of West Indian journals, published in the Caribbean region. It also includes theses, papers presented at conferences, collections of working papers, etc.”
  • Chicano Database: A comprehensive index to the literature of Chicano Studies; provides selected coverage from the early 1900s through the 1960s, and complete coverage from the 1960s through present.
  • Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de America Latina (ISOC): Indexes 20 Spanish journals (published in Spain) on Latin American topics, including history. Made available for free from Spain’s Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.
  • Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE) and Periodica: Indexes 2,600 journal titles and other scholarly materials in the social sciences, humanities, sciences, and technology fields. A free version of CLASE is also available from the Libraries of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS): A bibliographical index to works in the humanities and social sciences, reference books, book chapters, articles, and conference proceedings.
  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI): This database indexes over 400 critical periodicals in Latin American Studies. It focuses on all aspects of contemporary Latin American culture, including the border regions shared by Mexico and the United States.
  • JSTOR (full-text resource): JSTOR is a scholarly journal database. The Arts and Sciences I, II, III, and IV Collections offer full-text access to more than 60 core titles in the field of history. Titles relevant to the study of Latin American history include Journal of Latin American Studies and Hispanic American Historical Review, among others.
  • LatBook – Base de Datos de Libros y Revistas Argentinas de la Libreria Garcia. This database indexes hundreds of Argentine periodicals.
  • Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC): Provides access to the Table of Contents of 800 Latin American periodicals. A component of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (ARL), University of Texas at Austin.
  • Project MUSE (full-text resource): Project MUSE is a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. This initiative makes possible worldwide networked access to the full text of the Press’s scholarly journals. Coverage is from 1995 to the present. Titles relevant to the study of Latin American history include Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Journal of Latin American Geography, Hispanic American Historical Review, and Latin American Historical Review among others.
  • RedALyC – Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y el Caribe, Espana y Portugal (full-text resource): Offers the complete text of over 20,000 articles from 200 journals. Title coverage in history includes Revista Brasileira de Historia, Revista Mexicana del Caribe, and Signo Historicos, among others. Made available for free from the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico.

Related Databases

Resources that index scholarly journals, general interest periodicals, ephemera, and primary-source documents potentially relevant to Latin American History.

  • Academic Search Premier (full-text resource): The Libraries’ most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary journal database; It provides full-text access to more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, many of which are relevant to the study of history.
  • Access World News (full-text resource): Full-text from over 1,400 U.S. and international newspapers. The unique map interface enables users to quickly and easily target any search to a single title, all titles in a country or a continent, the entire collection, or any customized grouping. Updated daily.
  • America: History & Life: This venerable index contains article abstracts from journal literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
  • Digital Dissertations: A guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Digital Dissertations help you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master’s theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from 1997 on are available for free download along with 24-page previews of thousands of other recent dissertations.
  • History Reference Center (full-text resource): Designed for advanced high school students and undergraduates, Ebsco’s History Reference Center “features cover-to-cover full-text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and non-fiction books. . . . nearly 60 leading history periodicals. . . . 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video”. An interesting combination of primary and secondary source material. Useful for browsing a range of materials on a particular topic.
  • In the First Person (FIRP): FIRP indexes and links to “first-person” material in selected Alexander Street Press databases including Early Encounters in North America, Oral History Online, and Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Since FIRP indexes more than just oral histories (letters, diaries, autobiographies), it will eventually contain many more records than are available in the Oral History Online database. Currently, for example, FIRP contains 16,000 records versus ORHI’s 15,400. FIRP can be used to find primary source material available on the free web, and is itself a free resource.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (full-text resource): Search thousands of full-text, general-interest newspapers and magazines. Also includes sections on government and political news, as well as updated archives of state and federal case law, statutes and regulations. Primarily of interest to those researching the recent or “contemporary” past.
  • Periodical Abstracts: More than 800,000 records describing significant articles from more than 1,500 top general and academic journals. Contains records for transcripts of significant segments of more than 80 news and lifestyle oriented television and radio programs. Covers January 1987 to the present. Adds new records weekly.
  • Reference Universe: Covers back-of-the-book indices and article titles in subject encyclopedias and other reference works held by Temple and outside libraries.
  • World News Connection (full-text resource): Non-US media sources in translation. Covers multiple topics and all regions of the world.

Access Note: Many of the above databases are restricted to students, faculty, and staff. In such cases, off-campus users will be asked to provide their Accessnet username and password.

Selected Internet Resources

  • Internet Resources for Latin America (New Mexico State University Library)
  • Latin American Network Information Center / LANIC (University of Texas, Austin)
  • The premier online directory of educational web sites covering all aspects of Latin America. Highly recommended.
  • Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)

The PDBA “offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region”. Data are included for 35 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean basin. The following “themes” are covered:
•Political Constitutions and Comparative Constitutional Studies
•Executive Branch
•Legislative Branch
•Judicial Branch
•Electoral Data and Systems
•Political Parties
•Decentralization and Local Governance
•Democracy, Security and Conflict Prevention
•Civil Society

Latin America and Caribbean Bar Associations

See a List of Latin America and Caribbean Bar Associations here.

Native American Law Guide in Historical Law

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