Gabriel Jackson (hispanist)
| Gabriel Jackson | |
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 Gabriel Jackson | |
| Born |
March 10, 1921 (age 95) Mount Vernon, New York |
| Occupation | American Hispanist |
Gabriel Jackson (born March 10, 1921) is an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1921.[1] He is a leading authority on the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. Since his retirement he has lived in Barcelona, Spain.
A victim of McCarthyism,[2] he studied at Harvard and Stanford before attaining his doctorate at Université de Toulouse. A Fulbright scholar (1960–1961),[3] he obtained his professorship in 1965 and is Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego.
A disciple of both Jaume Vicens i Vives and prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, Jackson has been a regular collaborator of the Spanish daily El País for many years.
In 1966 he was awarded the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize,[4] and in 2002, Spain's prestigious Nebrija Prize from the University of Salamanca.[3]
Works
- The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-39 (1965)
- The Spanish Civil War: Domestic Crisis or international Conspiracy (1966)
- Historian's Quest (1969)
- A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War (1974)
- Civilization & Barbarity in 20th Century Europe
- Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Judith Keene and Gabriel Jackson
- Making of Mediaeval Spain (Library of European Civilization)
References
- ↑ Cline, H.F.; Conference on Latin American History (1966). Historians of Latin America in the United States, 1965: biobibliographies of 680 specialists. Published for the Conference on Latin American History [by] Duke University Press. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
- ↑ Popkin, J.D. (2005). History, Historians, and Autobiography. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226675435. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
- 1 2 "Curso académico 2002-2003 | Fulbright Program in Spain - official Web site". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
- ↑ "Herbert Baxter Adams Prize". American Historical Association. 1966. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
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