Details

Subject(s)

• Latin America—Biography [Browse]
• Portugal—Biography [Browse]
• Spain—Biography [Browse]

Related name

• Library of Congress [Browse]
• Gale (Firm) [Browse]

Summary note

Consists of digitized versions of 975 pamphlets selected from the collections of the Library of Congress containing biographical information on a vast array of political leaders, historical figures, writers, and other cultural figures prominent in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal during the 19th and 20th centuries, and a smaller amount of material on pre-Hispanic leaders in America. Within this body of material is found information on pre-Hispanic leaders in America, e.g. Acamapichtii, Axatacati, Cuitiahuac, on colonial figures, e.g. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdes, and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures, e.g., presidents and writers throughout the Americas and Iberia; although pamphlets on major nineteenth century figures such as Simón Bolivar, José Artigas, Andrés Bello, Rubén Dario, José Marti, Francisco Miranda, José de San Martin, and Domingo Faustino Samiento appear.

Notes

Title from collection description page (viewed on Oct. 5, 2011).

System details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

In

World scholar. Latin America & the Caribbean

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