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Spanish Capstone - Greensburg Campus

This guide will assist undergraduate students in developing and writing their senior thesis in the Spanish Capstone Seminar, SPAN 1950.

PittCat

PittCat is the main searching tool for all of the materials owned by the University Library System (ULS), including articles, books, ebooks, journal articles, ejournals, audio and video, digital images, government documents, microfilm and movies.

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Examples of Spanish and Latin American Studies Books @ Pitt

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This Spanish language database contains thousands of ebooks from the most renowned Spanish and Latin American Publishing Houses, as well as relevant journals that cover all topics of interest.

Using your research topic and search strategy, search PittCat for books. For example, you could do a search for "tango and young adults". If you would like to use a book that is available at one of the other campus libraries, use the Get It feature in PittCat. Here are some examples of books that might be helpful to you:

El tango : un mapa de Buenos Aires by Osvaldo Gallone
This book is available at Hillman Library.
History, violence, and the hyperreal : representing culture in the contemporary Spanish novel by Kathryn Everly
This book is available at Greensburg and at Hillman Library.
Gunshots at the fiesta : literature and politics in Latin America by Maarten van Delden and Yvon Grenier
This book is available at Greensburg and at Hillman Library.
Tango and the political economy of passion by Marta E. Savigliano
This book is available at Hillman Library.
The Falklands War by michael Parsons
ISBN: 0750923547
Publication Date: 2000-10-30
Parsons relates the background of the Falklands conflict and the events of the war itself, assessing different perceptions of the whole affair and reviewing developments since 1982.
The origins of Mexican Catholicism : Nahua rituals and Christian sacraments in sixteenth-century Mexico by Osvaldo F. Pardo
This book is available at Hillman Library and as an
ebook