Central America and Caribbean : Political Pamphlets
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 3032 E 320 PAM |
Held at | : Institute for the Study of the Americas Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://ilas.sas.ac.uk/resources/library › |
Full title | : Central America and Caribbean : Political Pamphlets |
Date(s) | : 1976-1985 |
Level of description | : Collection (Fonds) |
Extent | : 1 box |
Name of creator(s) | : Institute for the Study of the Americas |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The civil wars, guerilla movements, human rights abuses and economic problems afflicting Central America in the 1970s and 1980s are the chief topics discussed in these documents, primarily authored by non-governmental organisations.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Pamphlets, reports, statements and bulletins, 1976-1985, issued by Agencia de Noticias del Istmo S.A. (ANI), Comisión para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Centroamérica, Congreso Centroamericano de Sociología, Socialist International, Taller Continental de Trabajo, and War on Want Parliamentary and Trade Union delegation to Central America.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
Spanish and English
System of arrangement:
Randomly within boxes (at present)
Conditions governing access:
Open for reference purposes to all researchers and postgraduate students.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can usually be obtained - apply to library staff.
Finding aids:
Records at item level on library catalogue (SASCAT)
Archival Information
Archival history:
The majority of the materials held in the political archives of the Library Institute of Latin American Studies originate from the Contemporary Archive on Latin America (CALA), a documentation and research centre on Latin America which donated its holdings upon its closure in 1981. This core collection has continued to be supplemented by further donations and by materials acquired through the visits of Institute staff and their contacts to the relevant countries.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Institute for the Study of the Americas
Allied Materials
Related material:
See also Political Pamphlet material for the rest of Latin America, as well as related material in the library's main classified sequence, all held in the ILAS library.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Description compiled by Daniel Millum, Political Archives Project Officer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Created 01/02/2005 AIM25
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