Latin American Studies Research Databases

Latin American Studies

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HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Summarizes articles about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. International scope. Content mainly in Spanish with some English. 1970-current. 1970-current.
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Subjects include:
- anthropology
- archaeology
- art
- banking and finance
- business and industry
- commerce and trade
- drama
- drug trade
- economic development and policy issues
- economic integration
- environmental issues
- ethnography
- film
- folklore
- foreign relations
- gender studies
- geography
- history
- indigenous affairs
- literature
- politics and government
- public administration
- religion
- social movements
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Digital National Securities Archive – Latin American Collections (ProQuest)
This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S.foreign and military policy since 1945. The Library has access to the Latin American collection set.
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- DNSA
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Includes the following collections:
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- Cuba Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
- El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1984
- El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994
- Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990
- Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
- Peru: Human Rights, Drugs, and Diplomacy: 1980-2000
- Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
- Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1999
- Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies (1990-present)

Contains bibliographic records from volumes 50-64 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. The database includes citations for books, journal articles, conference papers, and websites.
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The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America--mainly published in Latin America and some in the United States. This is an advance tool to help you find unique materials from Latin America and the Caribbean. To find the full text of an article or book, you must search HOMER <http://homerweb.lib.uconn.edu/> (for books) or Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/> (for journal articles and other sources).
Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archeology and Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Economy, and Sociology. For earlier volumes check the Handbook of Latin American Studies <http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/897> (1936-1989).
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Latin American Newsstand

Full-text of over 40 Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics.
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See the list of all included titles. This joint initiative is sponsored by LARRP, (Latin Americanist Research Resources Project) a CRL Project.
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Informe!

Informe! A database reference tool providing indexing, images and full-text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. In Spanish. 1997-Current. 1997-Current.
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JSTOR
Essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology. Some back to early 1900s; most recent 2-5 years not available.
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Subjects include:
- African American Studies
- African Studies
- American Indian Studies
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture & Architectural History
- Art & Art History
- Asian Studies
- Botany
- Business
- Classical Studies
- Ecology
- Economics
- Education
- Feminist & Women's Studies
- Film Studies
- Finance
- Folklore
- General Science
- Geography
- History
- History of Science & Technology
- Language & Literature
- Latin American Studies
- Law
- Mathematics
- Middle East Studies
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Population Studies
- Psychology
- Public Policy & Administration
- Religion
- Slavic Studies
- Sociology
- Statistics
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