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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.
The Argentine Republic : Panama-Pacific exposition, San Francisco, 1915.
Argentina's attempt to join the world stage in 1915
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
Times of Cuba.
Cuba's periodicals depicting Cuba's economy surrounding the sugar, oil and petroleum trade in the 1920s.
History of Hernando Cortez and His Conquest of Mexico
Biography of the famous Spanish explorer and conquistador, Hernán Cortés (1485 – December 2, 1547), and his role in the fall of Aztec populations inhabiting what is Mexico today.
History of the Conquest of Mexico with a Preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortez Vol. 1
Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico analyzes the politics of the multiple correspondences between the Spanish conquistador party and the Aztecs from their initial meeting to the fall of the Aztec empire in modern day Mexico.
The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876.
This is a text prepared by the Brazilian government to showcase the Empire and its resources to foreign onlookers at the World Fair of 1876.