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Spanish: Literature, History, Culture & Film
Research guide to databases, websites, and reference works for information on Spanish language literature, history, culture and film
Bartolome de Las Casas
- Las Casas as a Bishop byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor, E125 .C4 P35Publication Date: 1980-01-01Contains the facsimile reproduction of El Manuscrito Kraus 139 with Spanish transcription and English translation with introductory essay, also in Spanish and English translation. This manuscript is a reproduction of the letter Fray Bartolome de Las Casas wrote to Emperor Charles V (King Charles II of Spain) revealing much about his views of the New World.
Historic Atlases
- David Rumsey Map Collection, Cartography AssociatesThe historical map collection has over 22,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
- Atlas histórico de Bogotá : cartografía 1791-2007 byCall Number: Downtown Folio, G1734.B6S1 A85 2007Publication Date: 2007
- Atlas histórico de España y Portugal : desde el paleolítico hasta el siglo XX byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor DP27 .L66 1999Publication Date: 1999
- Atlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos byCall Number: JPL 4th Floor Special Collections, Flat Shelving F1209 .G2 1972Publication Date: 1972Reprint of the 1885 edition.
- Cartografía histórica de Venezuela, 1635-1946 byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor Oversize G1726 .S1 P36Publication Date: 1946
- Carta de México : topográfica 1:250 000 byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor Oversize, Flat G1545 .I56 1988Publication Date: 1982254 pages
Includes maps of individual Mexican cities. - Atlas historico geografico y de paisajes peruanos byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor Oversize, Flat G1740 .P4 1970Publication Date: 1970
Primary Documents: Spanish History in the Americas
- Coleccion de documentos ineditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y organizacion de las antiguas posesiones españolas de ultramar byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor E123 .C7 1967Publication Date: 1962(Documents on the Discovery, History and Organization of the Ancient Spanish Overseas Possessions )
Primary source materials for the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and Caribbean. Contains an extensive selection of original letters, royal communiqués, legal documents, historical reports and narratives of the Spanish explorers and conquistadors, taken primarily from the Archivo General de Indias.
Contents:
t.1. Isla de Cuba.
t.2-3. De las islas Filipinas.
t.4. De la isla de Cuba, pte. 2.
t.5. De los documentos legislativos.
t.6. De la isla de Cuba, pte. 3.
t.7-8. De los pleitos de Colón.
t.9-10. De los documentos legislativos, pte. 2-3.
t.11. Relaciones de Yucatán.
t.12. Cartas, informes y memoriales de d. Gabriel Fernández de Villalobos. Vaticinios de la pérdida de las Indias.
t.13. Relaciones de Yucatán, pte. 2.
t.14-19. Indice general de los papeles del consejo de Indias.
t.20-25. Governación espiritual y temporal de la Indias.
t.26. Indice Alfabetico de personas.
t.27. Indice Cronologico de documentos.