PRINTED MATERIAL

Crónica de América (In Spanish)
[Jefe de redacción: Xavier Sanmartí Roset]. Esplugues de Lobregat (Barcelona), Spain: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A., 1998. [Davis Reference E18.5 .c76 1990]
A chronological encyclopedia of the Americas from 3,900 B.C. to 1989, filled with pictures, newsclippings, short biographies of presidents, governors and others. Includes an index.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Cultural Readings – Colonization & Print in the Americas
An exhibition from the collections of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation an the Rosenbach Museum and Library, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Library. "Any account of the colonization of the Americas must acknowledge the prodigious number of texts which colonization generated. 'Cultural Readings' presents a sample of those texts. The web site is grouped into six broad categories; it also includes scholarly essays on topics related to the exhibition and a brief bibliography and list of web links."

The Guaman Poma Website (In English and Spanish)
A Digital Research Center of the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contains an autograph manuscript facsimile of El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615/1616), annotated transcription, documents, and other digital resources.

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
HLAS is an annotated bibliography on Latin America, with works selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. The multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities, and with more than 5,000 works selected each year offers an essential guide to available resources. Use natural language search terms: buddhism, cross-cultural studies, economic sanctions Iraq, etc.

Historical Abstracts
Excluding the US and Canada, this database covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present, containing annotated references to over half a million entries. With major historical journals and hundreds of special interest journals, over 2,000 periodicals are included.