This guide is designed to help Claremont Colleges students, faculty and staff to find and use library and information resources for research in Central American Studies Studies.
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Selected sources for Background Information:
The Oxford Handbook of Central American History
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The Oxford Handbook of Central American History analyzes major themes in the historiography of this seven-nation region of Latin America. Individual chapters interpret the histories of each of the seven countries. Most concentrate on themes that cut across national boundaries, beginning with the history of the region's diverse natural environment, and continuing with the Indigenous peoples, the Spanish conquest and colonial rule, and the independence process. coherence as a region of Latin America while emphasizing its diversity within and across national boundaries.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive and comparative reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerica.
Critical dialogues in Latinx studies : a reader
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