Spain, Portugal, and Latin America

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Domican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Historical background and context for understanding today's news.

This CD contains the full text of 21 "Country Studies" published by the Federal Research Division of the Libary of Congress. Each country study is presented as a single document, in plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search.

In addition, we include:

• The CIA World Factbook, an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information on every country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and
• 126 classic books of literature, history, science, and religion related to the region (even a cook book).

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books (except for the World Factbook) are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

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Table of Contents

Country Studies

• Belize, 1992
• table A (html)
• Bolivia, 1989
• tables (html)
• Brazil, 1997
• table A (html)
• table B (html)
• table C (html)
• Caribbean, 1987 includes: Jamacia, Trinidad and Tobago, Windward Islands, Dominica, St. Lucia, Granada, Barbados, Antigua and Buarbuda, St. Christopher and Nevis, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Monserrat, The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, The Turks and Caicos Islands
• Chile, 1994
• appendix tables (html)
• Colombia, 1988
• appendix tables (html)
• Dominican Republic, 1989
• table A (html)
• Ecuador, 1989
• appendix tables (html)
• El Salvador, 1988
• appendix tables (html)
• Guyana, 1992
• appendix tables (html)
• Haiti, 1989
• appendix tables (html)
• Honduras, 1993
• appendix tables (html)
• Mexico, 1996
• tables a (html)
• tables b (html)
• Nicaragua, 1993
• table A (html)
• Panama, 1987
• appendix tables (html)
• Paraguay, 1988
• appendix tables (html)
• Peru, 1992
• table A (html)
• Portugal, 1993
• table A (html)
• Spain, 1988
• appendix tables (html)
• Uruguay, 1990
• appendix tables (html)
• Venezuela, 1990
• appendix tables (html)

CIA World Factbook (with maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world). This is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

Cooking

• La Mejor Cocinera para Calleja. Recetas de Cocina, in Spanish

Literature and Language

• Original inhabitants of Latin America
• Ancient Nahuatl Poetry translated by Daniel Brinton
• Portuguese
• O Livro de Cesario Verde
• O Cancioneiro Portuguez de Vaticana
• As Farpas: Cronica Mensal da Politica, Das Letras e dos Costumes, by Ramalho Ortigao and Eca de Queiroz
• Jan. to Feb. 1873
• March to April 1873
• Oct. to Nov. 1873
• Jan. 1878
• Feb. to May 1878
• June to July 1882
• June 1883
• Alexandre Herculano
• Lendas e Narrativas, in Portuguese
• Julio de Matros
• A Paranoia, in Portuguese
• Spanish
• Libro Segundo de Lectura by Ellen M. Cyr
• Stories by Foreign Authors, Spanish, 1898
• The Talln Woman by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon
• The White Butterfly by Jose Selgas
• The Organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
• Moors and Christians by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon
• Bread Cast Upon the Waters by Fernan Caballero
• La Vida de Lazarillo, anonymous, in Spanish
• The Lay of the Cid, anonymous in English, translated by R. Selden and Leonard Bacon
• with accents
• without accents
• Ignacio Manuel Altamierano
• La Navidad en las Montanas, a Spanish-American story
• Pio Baroja
• Zalacain el Aventurero
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca
• Life is a Dream, in English, translated by Edward Fitzgerald
• Life is a Dream, in English, translated by Denis McCarthy
• The Purgatory of St. Patrick, in English, translated by Denis McCarthy
• The Two Lovers of Heaven
• The Wonder-Working Magician, in English, translated by Denis McCarthy
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
• Legends, Tales and Poems, edited by Everett Olmsted
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Don Quixote
• in English
• in Spanish
• Exemplary Novels, translated by Walter Kelly
• Concha Espina
• La Nina de Luzmela
• B. Perez Galdos
• La Fontana de Oro
• Luis Velez de Guevara
• El Diablo Cojuelo
• in Spanish with accents
• in Spanish without accents
• Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza
• Contigo Pan y Cebolla
• Juan Eugenio Hartzenbech
• Las Amantes de Teruel
• in Spanish with accents
• in Spanish without accents
• Vicente Blasco Ibanez
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Mare Nostrum
• El Prestamo de la Difunta
• El Paraiso de las Mujeres
• The Shadow of the Cathedral
• La Tierra de Todos
• The Torrent
• Horacio Quiroga
• Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte
• D. Jose de Pereda
• Escenas Montanesas
• Elisio Reclus
• El Arroyo, in Spanish
• Jose Rizal (wrote in Spanish, lived in Philippines)
• The Indolence of the Filipino
• The Reign of Greed
• The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere) translated by Charles Derbyshire
• Manuel Romero de Terreros
• La Puerta de Bronce y Otros Cuentos
• Juan Valera
• El Comendador Mendoza
• D. Armando Palacio Valdes
• La Espuma
• Voltaire
• Candido by Voltaire (translated from French to Spanish)

History

• General
• General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr
• voume 3
• volume 4
• Latin American History and Travel
• Anahuac or Mexico and the Mexicans Ancient adn Modern by Edward Tylor, 1861
• Argentina from a British Point of View edited by Campbell Obilvie
• Biographfia del Liberador Simon Boliva
• in Spanish with accents
• in Spanish without accents
• Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
• volume 2
• Cuba Old and New by Albert Robinson
• Descripcion Geograpfica, Historica y Estadistica de Bolivia by Alcides de Orbigny, 1843
• Derroteros y Viages a la Ciudad Encantada, 1836
• Diario Historico de la Reblion y Guerra de las Pueblos Guaranis, Situados en la Costa Oriental del Rio Uruguay del Ano de 1754
• Diario de la Navegacion Emprendida en 1781 by Basilio Villarimo, 1837
• Historiados Primitivos de Las Indias Occidentales
• History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott
• History of Puerto Rico by R.A. van Middledyk
• Inca Land by Hiram Bingham
• Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin [sometime governor of Jamaica]
• Life in Mexico by Madame Calderon de la Barca, 1843
• Narrative of Service in  the Liberation of Chli, Peru, and Brazil by Thomas Earl of Dundonald, volume 2, 1859
• Paginas Subamericanas by Helen Phipps
• in Spanish with accents
• in Spanish without accents
• Reize Naar Surinamen en Guiana by Captain John Gabreil Stedman (in Dutch), 1799
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Relacion Historica de las Sucessos de la Reblion de Jose Gabriel Tupac-Amanec
• Santo Domingo a Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich
• Simon Bolivar the Liberator by Guillermo Sherwell
• Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray
• Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
• Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras by Harry Franck
• Viajes por Europa y America by D. Gorgonio Petano y Mazariegos, 1858
• Spanish History and Travel
• Castilian Days by John Hay
• Expedicion de Catalones y Aragoneses al Oriente by D. Francis de Moncada
• History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by William Prescott
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Science
• South American Geology by Charles Darwin
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Equinoctial Regions of America
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Religion
• New Testament in Spanish (Reina Valera version)
• 1909 edition with accents
• 1909 edition without accents
• 1602 edition with accents
• Vanished Aradia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767 by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
• The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman

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