This page brings together free pdf books about Latin American history. Topics include regional politics, colonization, cultural transitions, social movements, pre-Columbian eras, revolutions, and modern development. Materials range from older public domain works for free download to best modern books.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Clicking our topics usually works better than searching Internet Archive directly.
The sections below Topics provide links to Foreign News Translations and modern Open Access books. See those sections for more information.
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Topics – South and Central America Books
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to pdf books on Latin American regional history, cultural evolution, and socio-political developments. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable eBooks and textbooks. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by years of publication, language, or specific subjects.
South America Books PDF – South American History PDF
- Argentina
- Argentina History
- Bolivia
- Bolivia History
- Brazil
- Brazil History
- Chile
- Chile History
- Colombia
- Colombia History
- Ecuador
- Ecuador History
- French Guiana
- French Guiana History
- Guyana
- Guyana History
- Paraguay
- Paraguay History
- Peru
- Peru History
- South America
- South America History
- Suriname
- Suriname History
- Uruguay
- Uruguay History
- Venezuela
- Venezuela History
Central America Books – Central American History PDF
Foreign News Translations
FBIS Daily Reports – Latin America – 1978-1996
1978-1988
FBIS
FBIS daily reports were English-language translations of publicly available foreign mass media reports that were transmitted by radio, television, and print. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source office within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The JPRS reports that may also be here are essentially FBIS reports.
Open Access Latin America Country Books PDF Free Download
The Open Access materials below are modern books and other works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other nonprofit organizations. Open Access collections usually include pdf textbooks, online courses, classroom lesson plans, and recent academic books that reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
Open Access South American Books PDF Free Download
Open Access Central America Books PDF Free Download
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