Latin American and Latino Studies Research Guide: Encyclopedias & Reference

Multidisciplinary bibliography consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

Provides a multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts. 2nd edition (2008).

Scholarly treatment of the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas, addressing topics such as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.

Chronicles Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America.

A comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law.

Provides information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system.

Provides an overview of Bilingual Education by drawing from the fields of applied linguistics, politics, civil rights, history, and classroom instruction. Focuses on topics such as instructional designs, policy evolution, history, languages & linguistics, people & organizations, teaching & learning, and family, communities, & society.

Focuses on global warming issues, concepts, theories, examples, problems, and policies. Topics covered include atmospheric sciences; climate; climate change effects; climate and society; climate feedbacks; climate models; institutions studying climate change; oceanography; paleoclimates; programs and conventions; and people studying climate change.

Covers major theoretical approaches to the field of political communication, including direct and limited effects theories, agenda-setting theories, sociological theories, framing and priming theories, and other past and present conceptualizations.

Focuses on the developmental process of religion and spirituality across the human life span.

Examines the variety of formats and experiences that comprise social movement media. Thematic essays address selected issues such as human rights media, indigenous peoples' media, and environmentalist media, and on key concepts widely used in the field such as alternative media, citizens' media, and community media.

Covers key social theories and the theorists. Theories covered include Critical Theory, Enlightenment, Ethnomethodology, Exchange Theory, Feminism, Marxist Theory, Multiculturalism, Phenomenology, Postmodernism, Rational Choice, and Structural Fundamentalism.

Provides an overview of the who, what, where, when, and why of terrorism. Topics covered include Al-Qaeda, biological terrorism, extremism, jihad, and suicide bombers.

Explores poverty in various regions of the world, and examine the difficulties associated with the definition and measurement of poverty, along with its causes and effects.

Cross-searchable collection of more than 100 encyclopedias and handbooks from SAGE.
Extent: Multidisciplinary

An online, cross-searchable collection of reference books on a variety of subjects from more than 50 publishers.