Latin American Politics: Finding Books

Find books, articles, and more:

For Latin American Politics, try using the following words or phrases (in the library catalog specifically):

• "Latin America" AND "Politics and Government" (as SUBJECT words)
• [Name of your country] AND politics
• [Name of your country] AND "foreign relations"

If your topic is on something more specific, add in those words or phrases. For example:

• "Environmental policy"
• Economy
• "Economic Policy"

Use quotes to keep phrases together. For example:

• "Civil rights"
• "human rights"

Combine ideas to  narrow down your results. For example:

• "El Salvador" AND "social movements"

If you know the date of your event, you can add the date into your search. For example:

• "Civil Rights" AND "United States" AND 1964

If you want to find books about a certain topic in a particular century, add that century into your search. For example: 

• "El Salvador" AND politics AND "20th century"

Latin American History books are located on the third floor of the library in the F section. You can use the following table to come to the library and browse by the nation you are studying:

To find books using FrogScholar, select "Library Catalog" from the options on the left: