Digital Resources: Basques in Latin America
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online June 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Modern History (1700 to 1945); Public History. 8940 words.
The historical presence of Basque immigrants and their descendants in several Latin American countries from the age of colonialism to the present has led to the creation of a web of Basque...
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Digital Resources: Chilean History
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online October 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); Public History. 6248 words.
The 21st century brought with it a mass digitization of archival materials that rapidly changed preservation, research, and pedagogy practices. Chilean digital databases, archives, and...
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Digital Resources: Colonial Nahuatl in Central America
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online July 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Public History; Colonialism and Imperialism. 5132 words.
Nahuatl is the Latin American indigenous language having the largest number of colonial documents. As with other colonial documents, the study of these manuscripts requires mastery of the...
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Digital Resources: En el Ojo del Huracán, Private Letters from the Caribbean to Spain
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online July 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Caribbean History; Latin American History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Social and Cultural History; Public History; Revolutions and Rebellions. 8250 words.
The early 19th century was a period of intense turmoil and chaos in the Spanish-speaking world: The Napoleonic Wars and French occupation of the Peninsula in the 1800s, independence...
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Digital Resources: Guaman Poma’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online March 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Social and Cultural History; Public History; Colonialism and Imperialism. 8622 words.
Recorded in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2007, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) offers remarkable glimpses into ancient Andean institutions...
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Digital Resources: Latin America in Gallica
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online May 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Modern History (1700 to 1945); Public History. 7823 words.
Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, was launched in 1997. The library contains almost five million documents (manuscripts, books, journals,...
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Digital Resources: Online Finding Aid for the Archivo General de Centro América
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online March 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Slavery and Abolition of Slavery; Public History; Social and Cultural History. 6648 words.
The Online Finding Aid for the Archivo General de Centro América will provide increased ways for researchers to identify documents of interest in a widely distributed microfilm copy of this...
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Digital Resources: Power of Attorney, A Digital Spatial History of Indigenous Legal Culture in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online May 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Public History; Social and Cultural History; Legal and Constitutional History. 10367 words.
“Power of Attorney in Oaxaca, Mexico: Native People, Legal Culture, and Social Networks” is an ongoing digital research project that constructs a geography of indigenous legal culture...
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