Research Guides: Latin American Studies: Find Books

Davidson Library Catalog: Book Search

Literature & Document Collections

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture
Most of the pamphlets in the collection are on Brazilian subjects or their authors are Brazilian; the majority were published in Brazil or Portugal.
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, Part 2: Writers
This primary-source collection documents the literary, intellectual and cultural milieu of Revolutionary Cuba. Sourced from the archives of the Casa de las Américas in Havana.
Digitalia Hispánica
This collection contains e-books and e-journals in Spanish language published in Spain and Latin America covering a wide range of subjects from Art and Literature to Science and Technology.
All titles with the PDF view also have an audio viewer that allows users to listen to the text while reading. View in PDF, HTML, EPUB, download with Adobe for up to 20 days.
Latin American Women Writers
A collection of full-text literary works, memoirs, essays, and feminist works written by women in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Most of the texts are in Spanish and Portuguese.
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
A digital collection of books, pamphlets, political tracts, maps, and other works about North, South, and Central America and the West Indies, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Part of Gale Primary Sources
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean
Contains digital facsimiles of original manuscripts, letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, and ephemera related to the history of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Additional Book and Ebook Databases

Ebook Central
Find scholarly ebooks on all subjects.
Limitations on copying, saving, and printing vary by title, and reset after 24 hours. Some titles can be downloaded for short-term use; some allow chapter downloads. To locate ebooks without user limitations use the Advanced Search option. Near the end of the page, you'll find a field for "Number of Copies." Select "More Than 1" or "Unlimited."
Ebsco eBook Collection
Scholarly ebooks in a wide variety of subject areas.

Limitations on printing, downloading, saving vary by title. To download, Adobe Digital Editions software is required, and books are only available offline for short-term loans. For ebooks we have licensed for 1-User or 3-User the checkout time is 1 day. Please check back for your selected title, the library is not able to determine when an ebook will be accessible.
eDuke Books Scholarly Collection
Database of ebooks published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences.
All Duke ebook titles are DRM-free: users can print, read online, and download PDFs by chapter and allows for unlimited multi-user access.
Project MUSE
Database of humanities and social science ebooks and journals.

Titles are DRM-free allowing for unlimited access, downloading and printing, and simultaneous usage.

How to Find Ebooks

Use the guide below to learn about our ebook collections. You can also browse our Open Access collections.

How to Find Ebooks
Part of the "How to Find Books" Guide