Spanish Language, History, & Culture   Tags: cultures, history, languages, spain  

Reference sources are useful for:

• Choosing a topic
• Understanding terminology
• Locating background information
• Identifying good search terms
• Identifying additional resources

Online Encyclopedias:

• Spanish Reference Center--3 Spanish language encyclopedias:
  • PlanetaSaber includes Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, a comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia--145,000 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary
  • Enciclopedia Universal en Español Online
    A comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica--includes over 47,000 articles and 9,000 images, maps, and tables--covers art, geography, history, people, religions, science, and more
  • Enciclopedia Juvenil Online
    An elementary Spanish language encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
  Includes country information from the complete encyclopedia and the Britannica Student Encyclopedia, plus the Britannica Book of the Year--also includes 300,000 links to websites selected by the editors
  Compare countries and gather world data under Research Tools

Selected print reference sources:

• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture - EBook
• Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola, R 463.2 D545
• Oxford Spanish Dictionary (includes CD,) R 46.2 O98s
• University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary, R 463.2 U58
• The Firefly Spanish/English Visual Dictionary, R 463.2 C789fi
• The Facts on File English/Spanish Visual Dictionary, R 463.2 C789f
• 501 Spanish Verbs (conjugated in all tenses), R 463.2 K33f
• Using Spanish Synonyms, R 464 B328us
• The Statesman's Yearbook, R320.05 S797
• Countries and Their Cultures, R306.03 C855
• Encyclopedia of Latin American & Caribbean Art, R 709.8 E56
• St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists, R 709.8 S143
• Modern Spanish and Portuguese Literatures, R 860 M689
• The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, R 867.909 C178
• Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, R 867.909 E56
• Latin American Writers, R 867.909 L357
• Masterpieces of Latino Literature, R 867.909 M23
• The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature, R 860.9 F330
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture, R 946.082 E56
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, R 972.01 O98
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, R 980.03 E56co

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