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Latin America
Latin American Studies

General

• Brazilian Sketches (2003) by T. B. Ray (Gutenberg text)
• British Guiana (originally published 1962, may be updated), by Raymond Thomas Smith (HTML at Chicago)
• Crony Capitalism and Economic Growth in Latin America: Theory and Evidence (2002) ed. by Stephen H. Haber
• Food Price Policies and Nutrition in Latin America (1980) ed. by Giorgio Solimano and Lance Taylo
• The Fragile Tropics of Latin America: Sustainable Management of Changing Environments (1995) ed. by Toshie Nishizawa and Juha I. Uitto
• Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure by Fritz W. Up de Graff (HTML at Virginia)
• In the Power of the Spirit: The Pentecostal Challenge to Historic Churches in Latin America ed. by Dennis A. Smith and Benjamin F. Gutierrez (1996)
• An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians (1915) by Walter E. Roth (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Regional Study 1989 ed. by Sandra W. Meditz and Dennis M. Hanratty (HTML at LOC)
• Isthmus of Panama: History of the Panama Railroad and of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company by Fessenden Nott Otis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility (1997) ed. by Sebastian Edwards and Nora Claudia Lustig
• Large Mines and the Community: Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects in Latin America, Canada, and Spain (2001), ed. by Gary McMahon and Felix Remy
• The Military and the State in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Alain Rouquie
• A Regional Approach to Financial Crisis Prevention: Lessons from Europe and Initiatives in Asia, Latin America and Africa (2002), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen
• Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (2000) ed. by Sonia Fleury, Susana Belmartino, and Enis Baris
• Rural Agroindustry in Latin America: An Evaluation of the PRODAR Network (1997) by Edward Weber, Bernard Bridier, and Raul Fiorentino
• Social Policy in a Global Society: Parallels and Lessons from the Canada-Latin America Experience (1995) ed. by Daniel A. Morales-Gomez and Mario Torres Adrian
• Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) by Theodore Roosevelt (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton (Gutenberg text)

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• Castro Speech Database by Fidel Castro (searchable HTML at Texas)
• From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba by Eliza Ripley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Miscelanea II of Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969):A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)

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Mexico

• Life in Mexico by Manuel Romero de Terreros (Gutenberg text)
• The History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (HTML at Virginia)
• Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)
• The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico (1998) by David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller, and Melissa Fuller (PDF files at rand.org)

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Latin America History

• Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century (1989) by Ida Altman (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)
• Gender in Pre-Hispanic America ed. by Cecelia F. Klein (PDF files at doaks.org)
• The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William Robert Shepherd (Gutenberg text)
• History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott (HTML at Wild Wide School)
• History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest by Edward A. Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), ed. by David Rock (HTML at UC Press)
• The True Story of Christopher Columbus (HTML at University of Virginia Library)

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United States' Territorial Expansion

• Guided Readings: Westward Expansion - From Digital History Textbook Online.
• Guided Readings: Spanish America - From Digital History Textbook Online.
• The Territorial Development of the United States (Berkeley: Lectures on the Harvard Classics.) byProfessor Frederick Jackson Turner.

Latin American Studies

General

• Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnologies: Canadian-Latin American Perspectives (1995) ed. by Brent Herbert-Copley
• Hispanics and the Future of America (2006)
• Latin American Experiments in Neoconservative Economics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), by Alejandro Foxley
• Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future (2006)
• Strategies for Improved Management of Latin American Drylands (1980) ed. by J. A. Mabbutt, H. J. Schneider, and R. Nava (HTML at UNU Press)

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Latin American Literature

• Tijuana: Stories on the Border (1995), by Federico Campbell, ed. by Debra A. Castillo (HTML at UC Press)
• The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (1996) by Mariano Azuela, trans. by E. Munguia (Gutenberg text)

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Mexican Americans & Border Issue

• A History of the Mexican-American People (1997) by Julian Samora and Patricia Vandel Simon (HTML at MSU)
• Chicanas Speak Out: Women: New Voice of La Raza (1971) by Mirta Vidal (HTML at Duke)
• The Problem of Identity in a Changing Culture: Popular Expressions of Culture Conflict Along the Lower Rio Grande Border - Excerpted from Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border. 1993.
• Free Trade and the Economic Underpinnings of Mexico-U.S. Migration - A discussion on free-trade and Mexico-U.S. Migration.
• Mexico Intolerable Killings: Ten years of abductions and murders in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua - Amnesty International’s report.

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