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Encyclopedias "Latin America, History of." Encyclopedia
Britannica <http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=115340>.[Online][Accessed January 16, 2003]. Restricted to Union College Community
Includes articles on the postwar world, 1945-1980, and
the impact of the Cuban Revolution.
The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean.
General editors, Simon Collier, Harold Blakemore, Thomas E.
Skidmore. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
1992.
A single volume
covering the physical environment, economy, peoples, history, politics
and society, and culture. Includes very selective bibliographies and
numerous maps.
CALL NUMBER: Ref F 1406 .C36 1992
Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures.
Edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. López. London;
New York: Routledge, 2000.
Focuses on the
social, political, and cultural developments in this area from the
1920s to the present. The 4-page article on Cuba contains over 100
cross references to additional brief entries.
CALL NUMBER: Ref F1754 .E53 2003 v.1-2
Encyclopedia of Cuba : people, history,
culture. Edited by Luis Martínez-Fernández ... [et al.].
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
CALL NUMBER: Ref F1406 .E515 2000 v.1-3
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture. Barbara
A. Tenenbaum, editor in chief; associate editors, Georgette Magassy
Dorn et al. New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Simon & Schuster:
Prentice Hall International, c1996
The nearly 5,300
articles in this five-volume set attempt to cover the history and
culture of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, South America,
and the Spanish Borderlands that are now part of the United States "as
widely as possible to reflect the way Latin Americans of all classes
understand their world." There is a general article on "Cuba" as well
as individual articles on Cuba's "Constitutions," "Organizations,"
"Geography," "Political Movements, Nineteenth Century," "Political
Parties," "Revolutionary Movements," "Revolutions," and "War of
Independence," as well as "Cuban Intervention in Africa" and "Cuban
Missile Crisis."
CALL NUMBER: Ref F 1406 .E53 1996 -- v1-5
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. Senior editors,
Bruce W. Jentleson, Thomas G. Paterson; prepared under the auspices of
the Council on Foreign Relations ; senior consulting editor, Nicholas
X. Rizopoulos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Relevant articles include: "Cuba," Cuban Missile Crisis," "Bay of
Pigs Invasion," "Castro, Fidel," and "Cold War."
CALL NUMBER: Ref E183.7 .E53 1997 v.1-4
Dictionaries
Cella,
Susana.
Diccionario de literatura latinoamericana. Buenos
Aires: El Ateneo, c1998.
CALL
NUMBER: Ref PQ7081 .C37 1998
Levine, Robert M.
Race and ethnic relations in Latin America and the Caribbean: an
historical dictionary and bibliography. Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow
Press, 1980.
CALL
NUMBER: Ref F 1414.2 .B48 1988
Núñez,
Benjamín, 1912-
Dictionary of Afro-Latin American civilization. Benjamin
Núñez, with the assistance of the African Bibliographic Center. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1980.
CALL
NUMBER: Ref F 1408.3 . N86
Stephens, Thomas M.
Dictionary of Latin American racial and ethnic terminology.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, c1989.
CALL
NUMBER: Ref GN 564 .L29 S84 1989
Suchlicki, Jaime.
Historical Dictionary of Cuba. Metuchen, N.J. and London:
The Scarecrow Press, 1988.
CALL
NUMBER: Ref F 1754 .S83 1988
Oxford Reference Online: History. <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s11>
[Online]
Oxford University Press, 2003.
(Accessed January 13, 2003). Restricted to Union College Community
A searchable and browsable collection of history dictionaries from
Oxford University Press including: A Dictionary of World
History, A Dictionary of Political Biography, Handbook of the World,
and A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History.
Country Studies
Countries and Their Cultures. Melvin Ember and Carol R.
Ember, editors. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c2001.
Each country's
entry includes information on "Orientation" (geography, demographics,
language), "History and Ethnic Relations," "Urbanism, Architecture
and the Use of Space," "Social Stratification," "Political Life,"
"Social Welfare and Change Programs," "Nongovernmental Organizations
and Other Associations," "Gender Roles and Statuses," "Marriage,
Family, and Kinship," "Socialization," "Etiquette," "Religion,"
"Medicine and Health Care," "Secular Celebrations," "The Arts and
Humanities," and "The State of the Physical and Social Sciences." A
highly selective bibliography and list of Websites are included as
well.
CALL NUMBER: REF ROOM Ref GN307 .C68 2001 — v. 1–4
Country Studies Online. Library of Congress Area Handbook
Series.
The Country Studies Series presents
a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social,
economic, political, and national security systems and institutions
of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships
of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
The Europa World Yearbook. Edited by Arthur S.Banks
and Thomas C Muller. 41st edition. Binghamton, New York:
Europa Publications, 2000.
Basic information
on the organization, activities, finance, and publications of
international organizations (including the EU, NAFTA, and WTO) plus a
country-by-country overview of the geography, history, government,
defense, economic affairs, social welfare, and education system for
each country. Each entry also provides a range of statistical data and
directory information.
CALL NUMBER: Ref JN 1 .E85 2000
The World Factbook. [
Online ] Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency : Supt. of
Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [distributor], 1981-
Includes country
profiles, reference maps, and a glossary. The current volume online is
for 2002.
Reference Desk PrEx 3.15: Gov Doc
Worldmark Encyclopedia of
Cultures and Daily Life.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
Call
number: Ref GN333 .W67 1998
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Detroit: Gale Research, 2001.
Basic political,
geographic, and social information. Volume 1 covers the United
Nations and Volume 6 provides biographies of world leaders.
Call number: Ref G63 .W67 2001 v. 1–6
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