Iberian and Latin American Studies

↓ ↓ ↓ Skip to Useful Links on this subject ↓ ↓ ↓

A Guide and Overview on Iberian and Latin American Studies

The Iberian and Latin American culture boast some of the greatest influences on the globalized world as a whole. Spanning from Spain and Portugal to America and the Caribbean, the culture has become daily life for millions of people across the world. Keep reading to get an overview of Latin American studies and where this culture originated from.

Where the Iberian People and Culture Originated

From Beginning as simple hunter-gatherers of prominent Celtic tribes of central Europe, these tribes began to work their way into the southwestern part of Europe. The greatest of these tribes were the Turdetani and Bastetani. Living very close to Greek settlements, the tribes became heavily influenced by Greek culture. When comparing Greek and Iberian studies, a noticeable similarity is shared in the arts and humanities aspect of both cultures.

Muslim Conquest and Medieval Times of the Iberian Peninsula

Becoming the victim of a fast-growing Muslim empire, Spain lost its country to Moorish troops that beat a nearly defenseless army and took over the capital of Toledo. With Spain now becoming the Emirate of Damascus, the territory was divided among various different Moorish invaders. Some 50 years later, a growing Christian civilization called the Kingdom of Asturias began in the north and began gaining territory in the south that eventually led to the Spanish

ruling their own country once again.

The Conquest of a New World

According to the Institute of Latin American Studies, on a relentless quest for gold and silver, the explorer Christopher Columbus and his crew stumbled upon the island of Hispaniola. Taking over the Aztec and Inca empire brought Spain to the forefront of trading in the world, allowing them to establish a profitable trading empire that built business relationships with many European nations.

A Transformation of the New World’s Culture

The new Spanish conquistadors brought with them a culture that was the total opposite of Central and South American empires. The arrival of Christianity brought a mission with the goal of turning the natives away from what was considered their savage religion. Schools were established to teach native children European customs and ethics that brought a new generation of natives that were culturally European. It was these simple events at the beginning that brought about the development of Latin America as it is today.

Whether you are a Latin Americanist or student, having a basic understanding of the discussion research and teaching can help you have a better understanding of the western world that we live in. A subject area filled with fun and interesting topics, Iberian studies make for an exciting subject of research. Fostering intellectual discussion research of this area of expertise is a must for any history novice.

Check our useful sources for Iberian and Latin American Studies subject:

• • Gateways
    Iberian Studies Web

    http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Iberian_Studies_Web

    access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (for Spain, Portugal and Andorra).

    Internet resources for Latin America

    http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/

    maintained by the New Mexico State University Library.

    Intute: Portuguese, Spanish

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/mlas/

    web resources and the online tutorial Internet for Modern Languages

    Online Literary Criticism Collection

    http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

    From the Internet Public Library, can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

    PORT (Postgraduate Online Research Training)

    http://port.igrs.sas.ac.uk/resources.htm

    from the School of Advanced Study, University of London

    Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies: useful internet sites

    http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/humanities/languages/spanishportuguese/useful/

    from the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester

    Voice of the Shuttle (Web Page for Humanities Research)

    http://vos.ucsb.edu/

    WWW Virtual Library

    http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html

    History catalogue
• • Spain
    Association for Hispanic Classical Theater

    http://www.trinity.edu/org/comedia/index.html

    includes a library of downloadable texts.

    Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

    http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/

    biblioteca de las culturas hispánicas

    Consejería de Educación en Reino Unido

    http://www.mec.es/sgci/uk/en/home/index.shtml

    from the Spanish Embassy in London

    Euro Studies: Spain

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=120381

    from the Social Science Information Gateway

    Google news España

    http://news.google.com/news?ned=es

    Hemeroteca Digital

    http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/HemerotecaDigital/

    Spanish historical press from the Biblioteca Nacional de España

    History of Spain

    http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Spain:_Primary_Documents

    primary documents – from Eurodocs at Brigham Young University, Utah

    New Spanish Books

    http://www.newspanishbooks.com/

    a joint project of the Spanish Publishers’ Association (FGEE) and the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX)

    Spain Newspapers

    http://www.ipl.org/div/news/browse/ES/

    from the Internet Public Library (IPL)

    Spain, the United States and the American Frontier

    http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/

    historias paralelas

    Spanish books in print

    http://www.mcu.es/webISBN/cargarLibroBusquedaAvanzada.do?cache=init&prev_layout=busquedaisbn&layout=busquedaisbn&language=es

    libros editados en España desde 1972
• • Portugal
    Euro Studies: Portugal

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=120731

    from the Social Science Information Gateway

    Hemeroteca digital

    http://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/

    biblioteca digital de jornais e revistas caídos em domínio público

    History of Portugal

    http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Portugal:_Primary_Documents

    primary documents – from Eurodocs at Brigham Young University, Utah

    Instituto Camões

    http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/

    promoting Portuguese language and culture

    Portugal Newspapers

    from the Internet Public Library (IPL)
• • Latin America
    AncientMexico.com

    http://www.ancientweb.org/mexico/

    the art, culture and history of ancient Mesoamerica

    Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro

    http://www.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/index.php

    from the University of São Paulo

    Centre for Brazilian Studies

    http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/links2

    at the University of Oxford, internet links

    Cine nacional

    http://www.cinenacional.com/

    la base de datos más completa sobre cine argentino

    Embassy of Brazil in London

    http://www.brazil.org.uk/index.html

    Film History Index: Latin America

    http://vlib.iue.it/hist-film/latin-america.html

    from the World Wide Web Virtual Library

    Guaman Poma

    http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm

    El primer Nueva corónica y buen gobierno electronic version hosted by the Royal Library, Copenhagen

    Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online

    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/

    a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

    LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)

    http://lanic.utexas.edu/

    from the University of Texas at Austin

    Latin America Bureau (LAB)

    http://www.lab.org.uk/

    Research, publishing and education on Latin America and the Caribbean, with links to other sources from their home page.

    LatinArt.com

    http://www.latinart.com/index2.cfm

    the definitive online source of Latin American art

    Peruvian literature

    http://www.inkatour.com/books/index.php?lg=en

    from Discover Peru

    Proyecta Biblioteca Digital Argentina

    http://www.biblioteca.clarin.com/pbda/index.html

    reproduce aquellas obras que pertenecen al corpus de la literatura argentina y que han pasado al dominio público.

    Relics & selves

    http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ibamuseum/home.html

    iconographies of the national in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 1880-1890 offers a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the images of the nation-self that emerged in a moment of accelerating modernization and of the consolidation of new, centralized and disciplinary, state formations. Hosted at Birkbeck

    SLAS: Society for Latin American Studies

    http://www.slas.org.uk/

    the UK association for the Study of Latin America
• • Individual authors
    Literatura Argentina Contemporánea

    http://www.literatura.org/

    Jorge Luis Borges

    http://www.themodernword.com/borges/

    the garden of forking paths from the Modern Word

    The Cervantes Project

    http://cervantes.tamu.edu/V2/CPI/index.html

    from Texas A&M University

    Fundación Federico Garcia Lorca

    http://www.garcia-lorca.org/Home/Idioma.aspx

    Gabriel García Márquez

    http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/

    Macondo, from the Modern Word

    Fundación Pablo Neruda

    http://fundacionneruda.org/index.html

    Octavio Paz Society

    http://www.octaviopaz.org/

    Benito Pérez Galdós

    http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/Galdos/

    from the Biblioteca Virtual del Español

    La Asociación Cultural Amigos de Valle-Inclán

    http://www.amigosdevalle.com/

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    http://www.mvargasllosa.com/menubn.htm
• • Language
    Diccionario de la lengua española

    http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/

    from the Real Academia Española

    diccionarios.com

    http://www.diccionarios.com/

    Tus diccionarios on line. English-Spanish, French-Spanish, Spanish monolingual and synonym and antonym Vox dictionaries

    Grant and Cutler

    http://www.grantandcutler.com/

    London based foreign language bookshop for Spanish, French, German, and many more languages, spoken word cassettes, videos etc.

    iLoveLanguages

    http://www.ilovelanguages.com/index.php?category=Languages

    your guide to languages on the web
• • Discussion groups
    JISCmail

    http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/index.htm

    national academic mailing list service facilitating discussion, collaboration and communication within the UK academic community and beyond

    The Linguist List

    http://linguistlist.org/

    free subscription service to professional and research information, including mailing lists
• • Organisations
    ACLAIIR (Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources)

    http://www.aclaiir.org.uk/

    Arts and Humanities Research Council

    http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx

    supporting research into the arts and humanities

    British Academy

    http://www.britac.ac.uk/

    the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences

    Call@Hull

    http://www.fredriley.org.uk/call/

    a collection of online Communications and Information Technology (C&IT) resources for teachers and learners of languages in higher education.

    Canning House

    http://www.canninghouse.com/content/

    where the UK meets Latin America and Iberia

    CILT (Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research)

    http://www.cilt.org.uk/

    collects and disseminates information on all aspects of modern languages and the teaching of modern languages, open to everyone.

    Institute for the Study of the Americas

    http://americas.sas.ac.uk/

    Part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, the Institute promotes, coordinates and provides a central focus for research and postgraduate teaching on Latin America and the United States in the social sciences and humanities .

    Institute of Translation and Interpreting

    http://www.iti.org.uk/indexMain.html

    independent professional association of practising translators and interpreters in the United Kingdom

    Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

    http://www.llas.ac.uk/index.aspx

    from the Higher Education Academy

    WISPS: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

    http://www.wisps.org.uk/

    concerned with feminist studies and with the role of women in British and Irish Luso-Hispanism