Jay Kinsbruner
American historian of Latin America (1939–2007)
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Jay Kinsbruner (1939–2007)[1][2] was a professor and professor emeritus of history at Queens College, City University of New York.
Kinsbruner worked initially on early national Chile, but subsequently studied Latin American independence processes with a comparative approach.
Publications
- Diego Portales: Interpretative Essays on the Man and Times (Martinus Nijhoff, 1967)[3]
- Bernardo O'Higgins (Twayne Publishers, 1968)[4]
- The Spanish-American Independence Movement (Dryden Press 1973)[5]
- Chile: A Historical Interpretation (Harper & Row, 1974)[6]
- Independence in Spanish America: Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment (University of New Mexico Press, 1994)[7]
- Petty Capitalism in Spanish America: The Pulperos of Puebla, Mexico City, Caracas, and Buenos Aires (Westview Press, 1987)[8]
- Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 1996)[9]
- The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism (University of Texas Press, 2005)[10]
He also edited the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, with over 3,000 articles.
