Guides: INTS 712: Latin America Regional History: Getting Started

Economic Histories of Latin America

Finding Books

One approach to using the library catalog is to browse by Library of Congress subject headings that pertain to business in different geographic/political regions or countries. Here are links to some results in Franklin:

B r azil Economic conditions L atin America Economic conditions

A rgentina Economic policy Small business Latin America

M exico HIstory Business cycles Peru Foreign economic relations

C olombia Politics and government I nvestments, Foreign Latin America

You can also search for books in Franklin using simple keywords, such as

business AND latin america* (the asterisk indicates truncation)

or you can search on subject heading keywords

business latin america

Essential Catalogs

Franklin
Catalog of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries' books, journals, films, scores, recordings, microforms, electronic resources, etc. It covers all libraries in the Penn system except for the Biddle Law Library, which has the LOLA catalog.
WorldCat
The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries;71,000 libraries in 112 countries. Material not owned by Penn can usually be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
BorrowDirect
The combined catalog of the holdings of the eight Ivy League institutions plus Duke, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and Chicago. Students can use it to request books not owned or not currently available at Penn.
EZBorrow
The combined catalog of the 60+ members of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, as well as a number of institutions in neighboring states, such as Rutgers and NYU. One can request books not owned or currently available at Penn.