Useful Latin American External Weblinks

Useful for the Year 1 Introduction to the History of Latin America unit:

The European Voyages of Exploration

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/index.html Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/kislak/index/cultural.html>

On Nineteenth-Century Latin America

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook32.html

 On twentieth century Latin America

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook55.html

Latin American Current Affairs

British television and daily newspapers are insufficient for keeping up to date with current affairs in Latin America.

A combination of The Economist and Latinamerica Press/Noticias Aliadas will give you news and comment from opposite ends of the political spectrum.

The websites listed below can get you started towards other sources of information.

The Guardian has very limited coverage of Latin America in its printed version. However, its website www.guardianunlimited.co.uk does contain links to many Latin American newspapers online. El País www.elpais.es is much better for Latin American news from a European perspective.

Other useful sites

The University of Texas webpage is an excellent way into online sources on Latin America - http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/ - its LANIC data base is one of the most comprehensive data bases on all aspects of Latin America.

http://www.history.emory.edu/LatAm/ provides chronologies and other information on Argentina, mexico and Brazil.

 Websites on Venezuelan History: http://vlib.iue.it/history/americas/Venezuela/index.html

For scholarly articles see the US Library of Congress site 

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/mdbquery.html

For scholarly resources see

http://www.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/resources.html

For English translations of all Latin American constitutions see  

http://pdba.georgetown.edu/