Sources for Latin America


Argentina and Uruguay

These are published sources that I have found useful for research in the 19th Century. Most of these I have obtained via the inter-library loan scheme and they are held either in the British Library or in UK University libraries. The list is by no means exhaustive and most of the items listed below have ample bibliographies.

1.The Forgotten Colony Alexander Graham Youle, Hutchinson ca 1980

2.A Guide to Manuscript Sources for the History of Latin America and The Carribean in The British Isles P Walne. OUP 1973

3.Intercontinental Migration to Latin America - A Select Bibliography Juan Bailey & Freya Headlam. 1980.
Obtainable from Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 31, Tavistock Sq. London WC1H 9HA cost approx. £2.0

4.Latin America in Basic Historical Collections - A Working Guide. Russel H. Bartley & Stuart L. Wagner. Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. Stanford. CA. 1972.

5.Guide to Materials on Latin America in The National Archives John P. Harrison. General Services Administration. The National Archives and Records Service. The National Archives. Washington. 1961.

6. Research Outline LATIN AMERICA Available from: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Family History Library. Salt Lake City. Utah. USA.

7. British Agricultural Colonisation in Latin America. D.C.M.Platt. Inter-American Economic Affairs (Washington) 18, No. 3(1960) pp3-38 & 19(1961) pp 23-42.

8. Latin America and British Trade, 1806-1914. D.C.M.Platt. London: Adam & Charles Black 1972.

9.Pioneering in The Pampas or the first few years of a settlers experience in the La Plata. Richard Arthur Seymour. 1869

10.Un Poblador de las Pampas, vida de un estanciero de la frontiera sudeste de Cordóba, entre los anos 1865 y 1868. Justo P. Saenz. Editora del Plata, Buenos Aires. 1947. Note. This is a translation into Spanish of item 10 with many useful footnotes.

11. Remarks on the River Plate Republics as a Field For British Emigration. Mr. McDonnell. Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres. Parliamentary Paper LXX 1872.

12. The Buenos Aires Herald. Azopardo 455. 1107 Buenos Aires. Republic of Argentina. The Editor is Sr. Nicholas Tozer.

13. Latin American Newspapers in United States Libraries, a Union List. Compiled by Stephen M. Charno. Austin & London, University of Texas Press 1968.

14. The English in South America M.G.Mullhall. Standard Office, Buenos Aires 1878 (Stanford London).

15. Handbook of the River Plate (1885),M.G. Mullhall. Standard Office. Buenos Aires; Trubner & Co. London, Ballantyne Press Edinburgh.

16. Transcription of Register of Baptisms August 1868 to November 1897 San Lucas, Salto, Oriental del Uruguay. Transcribed by Janice Tostevin, 3 July 1992. [deposited in Society of Genealogists]

17. Industrias Rurales Uruguay 1830-1930.

18. Diccionario Uruguato de Biografias 1810-1940. Dr Jose M. Fernandez Saldaña. Editorial Amerindia.

19. University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) Publications List 1994. Available free of charge.

20. Accounts Of Nineteenth South America: An Annotated Checklist Of Works By British And United States Observers. Bernard Naylor ILAS Monograph No 2. (out of print) ISBN 0 485 17702 1.

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