Library Guides: History: Latin America: Books

History E-Book Collections

The Library offers over 130 e-book and text collections in specific subject areas. Many of these e-books also available through OskiCat and Melvyl. You can limit your search in OskiCat to "Available online," and in Melvyl to "Online resources." Collections that have strong history content include:

Cambridge Histories Online
Completely searchable full text of the Cambridge Histories series.

Explore American and British history, ancient history, Islamic history, economic history, the histories of philosophy, science, music, literature, religion, social histories, and much more. "My Histories" allows you to create and share a personalized library with your own bookmarks and notes.
CLASCO OA e-books collection
The OA e-books collection of The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) currently provides no charge access to over fourteen hundred e-books.

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is an international non-governmental institution, created in 1967 from an initiative of UNESCO, institution in which it has Associative status. Currently, it brings together 680 research centers and postgraduate programs (masters and doctorates) in various fields of Social Sciences and Humanities, located in 51 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the United States, in Africa and in Europe.
Humanities E-Book Project (formerly History E-Books Project)
Access to the full-text of important and frequently-cited books in humanities. (ACLS History E-Books Project - HEB) [1920s - present]

Access to the full-text of important and frequently-cited books in humanities. (These e-books are also listed in OskiCat and Melvyl.)
Project MUSE
Several hundred digitized scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. [1993 - present]

Topics include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. Books are available in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level, with no restrictions on downloading or printing.

Browsing Latin American History

UC Berkeley Library arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers and the major sections for Latin American history are listed below. These are all located on Level C of MAIN (Gardner) Stacks.

F1201-1392	Mexico
F1401-1419	Latin America (General)
F1421-1440	Central America
F1601-1629	West Indies
F2155-2191	Caribbean area
F2201-3799	South America

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History: Latin America: Books

History E-Book Collections

Browsing Latin American History