Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Cambridge Histories Online is a good resource for any aspect of historical research covering various aspects of world history including law, politics, religion, philosophy, science, and economics. After clicking on the link above, type Latin America into the search box for access to books on Latin American history. A similar search can be done for books on Caribbean history by typing Caribbean into the search box.

Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region.

This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today from both the standpoint of individual countries and the region as a whole.

A searchable, annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin American social sciences and humanities. The handbook is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese versions.

This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations.

From The Morgan Library & Museum, a digital copy of the Drake Manuscript, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in the sixteenth century.

Combining thematic analysis with country case studies including Mexico, Bolivia, and Brazil, an international group of scholars discusses the expectations, threats and responses to globalization in Latin America. They look at a variety of new research areas connected to globalization, such as the creation of informal citizens, the impact of remittances, the dangers of transnational crime, and indigenous responses to economic globalization and its impact on human security. Moreover, they identify the pitfalls of democracy in a globalizing Latin America, as well as the hopes connected with energy politics.

A look at the Southern Caribbean--the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested Caribbean region during the Age of Revolution. This book explores the British colonies of Grenada, Trinidad, and Demerera, which were characterized by insecurity and personified by the high mobility of people and ideas across empires. It examines the influence of multiculturalism inherent in this part of the world, a place of shifting borderland communities and transient ideas, where women and free people of color played a central role.

This volume investigates new migration patterns in the Americas addressing continuities and changes in existing population movements in the region. The book explores migration conditions and intersections across time and space relying on a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach that brings together the expertise of transnational scholars with diverse theoretical orientations, strengths, and methodological approaches. Some of the themes this edited volume explores include main features of contemporary migration in the Americas; causes, composition, and patterns of new migration flows; and state policies enacted to meet the challenges posed by new developments in migration flows.

Latin America is assuming an increasingly important position on the world stage with its heterodox economic policies and bold political experiments attracting world-wide attention in an era characterized by a general crisis of perspectives. Since European colonization from 1500 onwards, the region has played a key role in the modernization and enrichment of Europe and the West. Today, the West is in crisis and the whole Enlightenment discourse is thrown into question. Is it possible that Latin America now shows the West where it is heading? With complex, dynamic, conflictual, but, above all, original processes of development - and with new visions of social transformation and new constructions of hegemony - the region offers a fascinating laboratory for the rest of the world and, maybe, a mirror of the future.