Below you'll find specific digitization databases, projects, and websites that allow you to access primary sources for the history of travel & tourism in Latin America.
Full-text books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas. The collection is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, and religious history.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women.
The project has wide ranging interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry. Topics covered include: Emigration and daily life, Missionary Work, World War I, World War II, Boxer War in China, Frontier Life in America, Personal Enlightenment through travel, Education and Finishing School, Sightseeing, Holidays and Tourism, Customs, culture and leisure.
This resource brings together a wide range of primary source materials for the study of European empire, its theories, practices and consequences, dating from the late fifteenth century onwards. The documents in this collection have been sourced from archives and libraries based in the UK, North America and Australia. The majority of documents are from a colonial and thus Western and Eurocentric perspective, and mainly relate to the history of the British Empire. Geographic coverage spans Africa, Australasia, Central America and the Caribbean, East Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, and South East Asia.
