How to Find Books in the Bertrand Library Collection
In starting your research, you first will want to consult the Bertrand Library catalog to see if we have any materials including books, journal articles, and other types of resources that might help you in both developing your research topic by doing some preliminary research and in more deeply exploring a topic once you've picked a focus area.
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WorldCat Library Catalog (Bertrand Library Catalog) Search for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
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Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian Free Online Resources (LACLI)
LACLI is managed by the Latin America Northeast Libraries Network (LANE), a network of library professionals representing academic and research libraries mainly in the Northeastern United States. LANE is a regional affinity group with ties to the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). LACLI is an essential tool to find websites that provide access to a great variety of resources such as audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more!
The integrated catalogue of the BAALC Network includes the records of the collections of the academic libraries belonging to the Network of Academic Libraries of Latin America and the Caribbean (RedBAALC - UDUALC). Its purpose is to make available to the communities of higher education and research institutions and to the general public information resources useful for their functions and activities.
Books available from the Bertrand Library catalog
A new compact history of Mexico by ISBN: 9786074627527Publication Date: 2013In 1973, El Colegio de México published the first version of Historia mínima de México (followed in 1974 by the English translation A Compact History of Mexico) for the purpose of providing Mexicans living at that time with basic historical knowledge of their country. While preserving the aim of synthesis and simplicity that served as a basic guideline for the earlier Historia mínima de México, this new work constitutes a completely novel and original manuscript. Thus, A New Compact History of México is not only a “new history,” but also an innovative one. In its pages, readers will find accounts and perspectives enabling them to gain a fundamental understanding of Mexican history in an enjoyable way.
Encyclopedia of Latin America (12 Volume Set) by ISBN: 1536187933Publication Date: 2021-01-27Encyclopedia of Latin America organizes researchers from around the world in Latin American studies and related disciplines and maintains an up-to-date reference work for readers worldwide. Please review the Table of Contents for more in-depth information.
A New History of Modern Latin America by ISBN: 9780520963825Publication Date: 2017-08-01A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the region to show the unity of the Latin America experience while exploring the diversity of the region's geography, peoples, and cultures. It also presents substantial new material on women, gender, and race in the region. Each chapter begins with primary documents, offering glimpses into moments in history and setting the scene for the chapter, and concludes with timelines and key words to reinforce content. Discussion questions are included to help students with research assignments and papers. Both professors and students will find its narrative, chronological approach a useful guide to the history of this important area of the world.
A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America by ISBN: 0813057965Publication Date: 2022-01-04In this milestone work, William Fowler uses archaeology, history, and social theory to show that the establishment of cities was essential to Spanish colonialism. Fowler draws upon decades of archaeological research on the landscape, built environment, and architecture of Ciudad Vieja, a sixteenth-century site located in present-day El Salvador and the best-preserved Spanish colonial city in Latin America. Fowler compares Ciudad Vieja to other urban sites in the region and to the tradition of urbanism in early modern Spain to determine how the Spanish grid-plan layout was modified and implemented in the Americas. Using extensive archival material, Fowler describes how this layout reflected and perpetuated power structures that benefited the Spanish although the city's Indigenous population was greater in number. Fowler analyzes recorded interactions between colonists, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans to demonstrate the ways the cityscape affected the relationships among individuals and cultural groups. Offering an unparalleled view into a critical moment in Latin American history, this book offers new ways of looking at urbanism and colonialism as intertwined forces in the emergence of the early modern world.
We Are the Face of Oaxaca by ISBN: 9780822377504Publication Date: 2013-10-16A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television stations appropriated by APPO, shared at public demonstrations, debated in homes and in the streets, and disseminated around the world via the Internet. The movement was met with violent repression. Participants were imprisoned, tortured, and even killed. Lynn Stephen emphasizes the crucial role of testimony in human rights work, indigenous cultural history, community and indigenous radio, and women's articulation of their rights to speak and be heard. She also explores transborder support for APPO, particularly among Oaxacan immigrants in Los Angeles. The book is supplemented by a website featuring video testimonials, pictures, documents, and a timeline of key events.
Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts by ISBN: 1684481260Publication Date: 2019-05-17Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. This communion between elites was often based upon Mexican elites' own acceptance and reestablishment of problematic socioeconomic, cultural, and ethno-racial hierarchies that placed them above other groups--the poor, working class, indigenous, or Afro-Mexicans, for example--within their own larger community of Greater Mexico. Using close readings of literary texts, such as novels, diaries, letters, newspapers, political essays, and travel narratives produced by nineteenth-century writers from Greater Mexico, Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts brings to light the forgotten imaginings of how elite Mexicans and Mexican Americans defined themselves and their relationship with Spain, Mexico, the United States, and Anglo America in the nineteenth century. These "lost" discourses--long ago written out of official national narratives and discarded as unrealized or impossible avenues for identity and nation formation--reveal the rifts, fractures, violence, and internal colonizations that are a foundational, but little recognized, part of the history and culture of Greater Mexico.
Idea of a new general history of North America : an account of colonial native Mexico by ISBN: 9780806152479Publication Date: 2015The volume, completed in 1746 and written almost entirely from memory, is presented here in English for the first time, along with the Catálogo, Boturini's annotated enumeration of the works he had gathered in New Spain.
