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Times of Cuba.
Cuba's periodicals depicting Cuba's economy surrounding the sugar, oil and petroleum trade in the 1920s.
A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico
Edith O'Shaughnessy's personal and unfiltered account of her time in Mexico as an American diplomat's wife during the Mexican Revolution with an account of the United States occupation in Vera Cruz
The Argentine Republic : Panama-Pacific exposition, San Francisco, 1915.
Argentina's attempt to join the world stage in 1915
Travels in the West: Cuba, with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade
This travel narrative, written by 19th-century Scottish abolitionist and British consul to Cuba, advocates for Cuba to abolish their slave trade in order to bolster the island's economy.
An Inquiry into the Causes of the Insurrection of the Negroes in the Island of St. Domingo to Which Are Added, Observations of M. Garran-Coulon on the Same Subject, Read in His Absence by M. Guadet, before the National Assembly, 29th Feb. 1792
Text from a National Assembly session on February 29, 1792 to discuss the colony of St. Domingo (Haiti)
[America. Pt. 8. Latin] Americae Pars VIII
Part of a 9-volume collection of canonical illustrations of the New World, Volume 8 of de Bry's Americæ introduces readers to visions of Sir Walter Raleigh's, Francis Drake's, and Thomas Candisch's expeditions in the Western Hemisphere.