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Research Guide for Mexico--selected reference and web resources

Prepared by Ellie Bolland, Case Library, Reference Services

 

Finding  Books  · News · Statistics · Atlases and Maps · Bibliographies · Indexes 

 Art  ·  Biographical Dictionaries · Culture ·  Economic Issues ·  Ethnic Groups and Nationalities
Foreign Policy · History · Human Rights · Language-Dictionaries · Law · Literature · Military
Politics and Government · Religion · Women · Web Resources


Overview Sources

World factbook (Washington, D.C. : Online)
Washington, DC : Central Intelligence Agency
COLGATE Network G123 .W67a

Mexico section of Europa World Plus / New York, NY : Taylor & Francis E-reference, 2003-
COLGATE Network D443 .E87 

Milenios de Mexico / Humberto Musacchio.
Mexico : Hoja Casa Editorial, c1999.
CASE Ref. F1204 .M955 1999 vol. 1-3

Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture /editor, Michael S. Werner ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, c1997
CASE Ref. F1208 .E539 1997 vol. 1-2

Background Notes : Mexico (U.S. Dept. of State)
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/mx/

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean / general editors, Simon Collier, Harold Blakemore, Thomas E. Skidmore. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992
CASE Ref. F1406 .C36 1992

Hispanic culture of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean / edited by Peter Standish.
Detroit : Gale Research, c1996.
CASE Ref. F1234 .H794 1996 

Mexico A-Z : an encyclopedic dictionary of Mexico / By George E. Nelson and Mary B. Nelson.
Cuernavaca, Mexico : Centro Para Retirados, 1975.
CASE Ref. F1204 .N45


Finding Books:

Some key subject headings for searching in Mondo (the Colgate Libraries' Catalog)
Mexico 
Mexico -- History 
Mexico -- History--Revolution, 1910-1920                                      
Mexico -- Politics and government 
Mexico -- Economic conditions
        Mexico -- Social conditions
        Mexico -- Social life and customs
        Mexico -- Social movements
        Mexico -- Antiquities
        Art -- Mexico
        Indians of Mexico
 
Selected new books in our libraries
Connect to the New Acquisitions page and use the browser "find in page" function in the "Edit" menu to search the list for the keyword you wish to search for.

Searching for resources in other libraries
ConnectNY (the combined catalogs of 13 libraries in NY State, 1-2 day delivery):
        from a search or record in Mondo, click on the ConnectNY button at the top of the page

WorldCat (the combined catalogs of more than 40,000 libraries worldwide, 5 day delivery)


News                                                    

NewsLink provides access to a number of major online Mexican newspapers

World press encyclopedia : a survey of press systems worldwide  online / Amanda C. Quick, project editor. Detroit : Gale, c2003.
Colgate Network PN4728 .Q53 2003 vol. 1-2

See also other news sources at: Find Articles: Newspapers & Media
       
Recommended databases: LexisNexis Academic, Access World News, Ethnic Newswatch, FBIS
 

Statistics

World development indicators
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
CASE Ref. HC59.15 .W656 2005
older eds. in LASR Main

The Mexico handbook : economic and demographic maps and
statistics
/ James B. Pick and Edgar W. Butler.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
CASE Ref. G1545 .P5 1994

Anuario estadistico de America Latina y el Caribe = Statistical
yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Library has: v. 1- 1990-
CASE Ref. HA751 .A58

Official Demographic information from the government of Mexico. The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) is the agency responsible for integrating Mexico's systems of statistical and geographic information, in addition to promoting and orienting the development of informatics in the country.
http://www.inegi.gob.mx

United States-Mexico border statistics since 1900 : 1990 update / edited by David E. Lorey.
Los Angeles : UCLA Latin American Center Publications,  1993.
CASE Ref. HA218 .U56 1990 Suppl.

The illustrated book of world rankings / edited by George Thomas Kurian.
Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, 2000.
CASE Ref. HA155 .K87 2001

International historical statistics : the Americas, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell.
CASE Ref. HA175 .M55 2003

Bank of Mexico/Banco de Mexico
http://www.banxico.org.mx/ (Spanish and English)

United Nations Statistics Division

 

Atlases and Maps

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (Online resource)
Maps of the Americas

The Mexico handbook : economic and demographic maps and
statistics
/ James B. Pick and Edgar W. Butler.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
CASE Ref. G1545 .P5 1994

Mexico
[Washington, D.C.? : Central Intelligence Agency, 1989]
CASE Maps PrEx 3.10/4:M 57/4
Ask at reference desk
 

Bibliographies

Mexico / George D. E. Philip, compiler.
Oxford [England] ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1993
CASE Ref. F1208 .P48 1993

The Aztecs : a bibliography of books and periodical articles /
Thomas L. Welch and Rene Gutierrez.
Washington, D.C. : Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of
American States, 1987.
CASE Ref. F1219.73 .W45 1987

The art of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica : an annotated bibliography /
Janet Catherine Berlo.
Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1985.
CASE Ref. F1219.3.A7 B44 1985

The Mexican Revolution, an annotated guide to recent scholarship / W. Dirk Raat.
Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1982.
CASE Ref. F1234 .R22
 

Indexes and Abstracts (finding articles)

The indexes below are particularly focused on areas relating to Mexico. Many other indexes available on this page also cover relevant material.  Chose the focus of your research from the subject guide and explore the possibilities.  Indexes in the Multidisciplinary/General category will work for many subject searches.

HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies)  1935--

HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index 1970--
 

Art

Art Index and Art Index Retrospective

Grove Art Online

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art / editor, Jane
Turner.
New York : Grove's Dictionaries, 2000.
CASE Ref. N6502 .E53 2000
 

Biographical Dictionaries

Dictionary of Mexican rulers, 1325-1997 / Juana Vazquez-Gomez.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
CASE Ref. F1205 .V34 1997 

Hispanic culture of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean /
edited by Peter Standish.
Detroit : Gale Research, c1996.
CASE Ref. F1234 .H794 1996

Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993 / by Roderic Ai Camp
3rd ed.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.
CASE Ref. F1235.5.A2 C35 1995
 

Culture

Encyclopedia of food and culture
/ Solomon H. Katz, editor New York : Scribner, c2003.
Online
 

Economic Issues

World development indicators
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
CASE Ref. HC59.15 .W656 2005
older eds. in LASR Main

Ministry of Finance and Public Credit 

Center of Research for Development (CIDAC)
Website of a leading Mexican think tank.

World Bank Group / Mexico

EconLit - For finding articles in the journal literature, conference proceedings, articles in books, etc.

The Mexico handbook : economic and demographic maps and
statistics
/ James B. Pick and Edgar W. Butler.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
CASE Ref. G1545 .P5 1994 
 

Education

World education encyclopedia : a survey of educational systems worldwide / Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson, editor. 2nd ed.
Detroit, MI : Gale Group, c2002.
Online

 

Ethnic Groups and Nationalities
 
Encyclopedia of world cultures (see v. 8 Middle American and the Caribbean) / David Levinson, editor
Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1991-
CASE Red. GN307 .E53 1991 v. 8
 
Countries and their cultures / Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember,
editors.
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.
CASE Ref. GN307 .C68 2001 v.3
 
The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures / David Carrasco, editor in chief.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
CASE Ref. F1218.6 .O95 2001 vol. 1-3
 
Maya civilization / John M. Weeks.
New York : Garland Pub., 1993
CASE Ref. F1435 .W43 1993
 
The Mayas : a bibliography of books and periodical articles /
compiled by Thomas L. Welch and Rene L. Gutierrez. Washington, D.C. : Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States, 1991.
CASE Ref. F1435 .W45 1991

The Aztecs : a bibliography of books and periodical articles /
Thomas L. Welch and Rene Gutierrez.
Washington, D.C. : Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of
American States, 1987.
CASE Ref. F1219.73 .W45 1987

Website with many links to information about the Zapatista movement
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/zapsincyber.html

Foreign Policy

Search Mondo using the subject heading: Mexico--foreign relations

Articles about foreign policy - Political Science indexes

Treaties and Agreements Library (Hein online)
 *See reference librarian for search help


 

History

Encyclopedia of modern Mexico / David W. Dent.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.
CASE Ref. F1234 .D364 2002

Mexico / George D. E. Philip, compiler.
Oxford [England] ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1993
CASE Ref. F1208 .P48 1993

The Mexican Revolution, an annotated guide to recent scholarship / W. Dirk Raat.
Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1982.
CASE Ref. F1234 .R22

The Oxford history of Mexico / edited by Michael C. Meyer and William H. Beezley.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
LASR F1226 .O94 2000

Historical dictionary of ancient Mesoamerica / Joel W. Palka.Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.
CASE Ref. F1434 .H57 2000 

Encyclopedia of prehistory / edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember.
New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, c2001-
CASE Ref. GN710 .E53 2001 vol. 3 (Middle America)

Encyclopedia of ancient Mesoamerica / Margaret R. Bunson and Stephen M. Bunson.
New York : Facts On File, c1996.
CASE Ref. F1219 .B932 1996

Archaeology of ancient Mexico and Central America : an encyclopedia / Susan Toby Evans, David L. Webster, editors.
New York : Garland Pub., 2001.
CASE Ref. F1218.6 .A73 2001
 

Human Rights

Voces indigenas en foros internacionales / Marcos Matias Alonso, compilador.
Mexico, D.F. : Asociacion Alemana para la Educacion de Adultos :
Altepetl Nahuatl de la Montana de Guerrero : Instituto Nacional
Indigenista : Plaza y Valdes Editores, 1999.
LASR GN380 .V63 1999

Amnesty International

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Mexico (U.S. State Dept.)

Human Rights Interactive Network

Human Rights Watch - Americas - Mexico
 

Search the subject heading Human rights--Mexico in Mondo for more books on this subject.
 

Language--Dictionaries

An analytical dictionary of Nahuatl / Frances Karttunen
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
CASE Ref. PM4066 .K37 1992

The American Heritage Spanish dictionary : Spanish/English, ingles/espanol.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001.
CASE Ref. PC4640 .A47 2001

Maya for travelers and students : a guide to language and culture in Yucatan / Gary Bevington.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.
LASR PM3965 .B48 1995 
 

Law

Legal systems of the world : a political, social, and cultural encyclopedia / edited by Herbert M. Kritzer. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
CASE Ref. K48 .L44 2002 vol. 3 M-R

Guide to Law Online (U.S. Library of Congress)

A revised guide to the law & legal literature of Mexico / by
Helen L. Clagett and David M. Valderrama.
Washington : Library of Congress, 1973.
LASR KGF292 .C55 1973

 

Literature

Dictionary of Mexican literature / edited by Eladio Cortes.
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1992.
CASE Ref. PQ7106 .D53 1992

Borderlands sourcebook : a guide to the literature on northern
Mexico and the American Southwest
/ edited by Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand, and Jonathan P. West.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press : Published under the
sponsorship of the Association of Borderlands Scholars, c1983
CASE Ref. F786 .B67 1983

Diccionario de escritores mexicanos / [por] Aurora M. Ocampo de Gomez [y] Ernesto Prado Velazquez.
Mexico] U[niversidad] N[acional] A[utonoma de] M[exico] [1967]
CASE Ref. PQ7106 .O24 

Mexican literature : a bibliography of secondary sources / by David William Foster.
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1981.
CASE Ref. PQ7141 .F67 

The Oxford encyclopedia of theatre & performance / edited by Dennis Kennedy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
CASE Ref. PN2035 .O94 2003 vol. 1-2
 

Military

Just the facts : a civilians guide to U.S. defense and security assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean / Adam Isacson and Joy Olson
Washington, D.C. : Latin America Workig Group, 1999
LASR UA12 .I83 1999

World military expenditures and arms transfers / U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Washington, D.C. : The Agency : [Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.,
distributor,
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS4526 connect to older issues
http://www.state.gov/t/vc/rls/rpt/

 

Music

Grove Music Online

The Garland encyclopedia of world music / advisory editors, Bruno
Nettl and Ruth M. Stone ; founding editors, James Porter and
Timothy Rice.
New York : Garland, 1998- 
LASR ML100 .G16 1998 vol. 2 
LASR ML100 .G16 1998 vol. 2 Disc 

Diccionario de compositores mexicanos de musica de concierto :
siglo XX
/ Eduardo Soto Millan, compilador.
Mexico : Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Musica : Fondo de
Cultura Economica, 1996-

CASE Ref. ML106.M6 S6 1996 t. 1 

Search the subject headings Music--Mexico and Musicians--Mexico for more books and sound recordings in this area.
 

Politics and Government

Political parties of the Americas and the Caribbean : a reference guide / editors, John Coggins and D.S. Lewis ;  Essex, U.K. : Longman, 1992.
CASE Ref. JF2011 .P635 1992 

Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics / Diana Kapiszewski, editor ; Westport, CT, 2002
CASE Ref. F1410 .E56 2002

Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University and Organization of American States)
http://www.georgetown.edu/pd

 

Primary Sources

Treaties and Agreements Library (Hein online)
 *See reference librarian for search help

Early Encounters in North America :People, Cultures, and the Environment. [Colgate Only]
"
early accounts of exploration and discovery"

 

Religion

Religions of the world : a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices / J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, editors ;
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
CASE Ref. BL80.3 .R45 2002 vol. 1-4

Handbook of Mesoamerican mythology (ABC-Clio Ebooks)
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000.
 

Women

The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide. Asia and
Oceania
/ Lynn Walter, editor-in-chief, Manisha Desai, volume
editor. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
CASE Ref. HQ1726 .G74 2003

Women of the world : laws and policies affecting their
reproductive lives: Latin America and the Caribbean
/ The
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and DEMUS, Estudio para
la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer.
New York, N.Y. : Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, 1997.
LASR HQ1236.5.L37 W66 1997

The World's Women, 2000 : trends and statistics
New York : United Nations, 2000
CASE Ref. HQ1154 .W675 2000

Web Resources

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)

Government of Mexico

Portals to the World (selected by the Library of Congress)

 

 

 


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