Staff, ed. (2021). «Monroe Doctrine». www.britannica.com. Britannica. Consultado el 13 de abril de 2022. «Pres. James Monroe in his annual message to Congress. Declaring that the Old World and New World had different systems and must remain distinct spheres, Monroe made four basic points: (1) the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of or the wars between European powers; (2) the United States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere; (3) the Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization; and (4) any attempt by a European power to oppress or control any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be viewed as a hostile act against the United States».
«Carib». Encyclopædia Britannica. Archivado desde el original el 30 de abril de 2008. Consultado el 20 de febrero de 2008. «inhabited the Lesser Antilles and parts of the neighbouring South American coast at the time of the Spanish conquest.»
"North America". Britannica Concise Encyclopedia; "... associated with the continent is Greenland, the largest island in the world, and such offshore groups as the Arctic Archipelago, The Bahamas, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Aleutian Islands," but also "North America is bounded ... on the south by the Caribbean Sea," and "according to some authorities, North America begins not at the Isthmus of Panama but at the narrows of Tehuantepec."
The World: Geographic Overview, The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency; "North America is commonly understood to include the island of Greenland, the isles of the Caribbean, and to extend south all the way to the Isthmus of Panama."
«Carib». Encyclopædia Britannica. Archivado desde el original el 30 de abril de 2008. Consultado el 20 de febrero de 2008. «inhabited the Lesser Antilles and parts of the neighbouring South American coast at the time of the Spanish conquest.»
Engerman, Stanley L. (2000). «A Population History of the Caribbean». En Haines, Michael R.; Steckel, Richard Hall, eds. A Population History of North America. Cambridge University Press. pp. 483-528. ISBN978-0-521-49666-7. OCLC41118518.
Hillman, Richard S.; D'Agostino, Thomas J., eds. (2003). Understanding the contemporary Caribbean. London, UK: Lynne Rienner. ISBN978-1588266637. OCLC300280211.
