Gail Egbers
535-8869
egbersgl@plu.edu
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FINDING BOOKS:  QUEST, our computerized catalog, provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (large red books near QUEST) to identify the best subject headings for your topic.  You will be most successful using specific headings.  Subject headings relevant to your topic include:

 Latin America -- History -- To 1830.
Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History
Art, Colonial -- Latin America
Latin America -- Colonial influence.
Spain -- Colonies -- America.
Indians of South America
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Land tenure -- Mexico
 
FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

EBSCOhost (via PLU’s Network)
Indexes and abstracts about 3000 journals.  About 1000 journals include full-text online.

Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (via PLU's network)
HAPI indexes journals published throughout the Western world from 1970 to the present.  It covers topics dealing with Central & South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the United States.

Historical abstracts 1955-1996. (Index area  ref.D299.H5)
A scholarly index to journals and research in world history.  In two sections:
 Part A:  Modern History, 1450-1914
 Part B:  Twentieth Century, 1914-present.

Humanities Index 1974+(Index Area ref.AI3.R51 and via FirstSearch) ( Before 1974, part of Social Sciences and Humanities Index and International Index)Indexes scholarly journals in the humanities, including history, literature, art, religion, and philosophy.

New York Times Index 1851+  (Index area ref AI21.N44)
Will assist you in locating articles from the last 100+ years on events and conditions of the world which appeared in this newspaper.

PAIS International in Print. 1991+(formerly  Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin.)(Index area ref.Z7163.P88 and via FirstSearch)
This source indexes journal articles, government documents, and books related to world wide policy.  Look up relevant articles under both the country and the topic.
 

Social Sciences Index  1974+  (Index area refAI3.R5, via FirstSearch) (Before 1974, part of Social Sciences and Humanities Index and International Index)
Selective index to scholarly journals in the social sciences relating to politics, economics, geography, sociology, psychology, and other social sciences.
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.  Use QUEST to identify the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in the main collection on the second and third floors.
 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean (ref.F1406.C36 1992)

Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture (ref.F1406.E53 1996)

Handbook of South American Indians (ref.E51.U6 no. 143)

Historical dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975 (ref.DP56.H57 1992)

Latin America and the Caribbean : a critical guide to research sources (ref.F1408.L38x 1992)

Latin American history, a teaching atlas (ref.G1541.S1L6 1983)
 

INTERNET RESOURCES

CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas (http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/index/biblio.html)

Historical Text Archive-COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA (http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/Latin_America/colonial.html)

History of Latin America, The Colonial Era (-1825) (http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/colonial/index.htm)

Internet Resources for the Study of Colonial Latin America (http://mailer.fsu.edu/~sarias/colonial.html)

Latin American Library of Tulane (http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/lalhome.html)

Latin American Resources (http://fhss.byu.edu/history/pratt/resource/resource.htm)

Latin American Web Links( http://www.umich.edu/~proflame/mirror/material.html)

Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/Benson/benson.html)

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