Gabriel Jackson (Hispanist)

Gabriel Jackson (March 10, 1921 – November 3, 2019)[1] was an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1921.[2] Since his retirement he lived in Barcelona, Spain.

Gabriel Jackson
Gabriel Jackson
Born	(1921-03-10)March 10, 1921 Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Died	November 3, 2019(2019-11-03) (aged 98) Ashland, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	American Hispanist

A victim of McCarthyism,[3] he studied at Harvard and Stanford before attaining his doctorate at Université de Toulouse. A Fulbright scholar (1960–1961),[4] he obtained his professorship in 1965 and was Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego.

A disciple of both Jaume Vicens i Vives and the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, Jackson was 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,[5] and in 2002, Spain's prestigious Nebrija Prize from the University of Salamanca.[4]

Works

• The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931–39. Princeton (N.J.): Princeton University Press, 1965
  • La República Española y la Guerra Civil: 1931–1939. Barcelona: Crítica, 1999
  • --do.--[Esplugues de Llobregat]: Orbis, 1985
  • --do.--Barcelona: Mundo Actual de Ediciones, 1978
• The Spanish Civil War: Domestic Crisis or international Conspiracy. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1967
  • --do.--Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1972
  • Histoire de la Guerre civile de l'Espagne. Paris: Ruedo Ibérico, 1974
• Historian's Quest. New York: Knopf, 1969
  • Historia de un historiador. Madrid: Anaya & Mario Muchnik, cop. 1993
• A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974
• Breve historia de la Guerra Civil Española. Barcelona : Grijalbo, 1986
• --do.--[Paris]: Ruedo Ibérico, 1974
• Civilization & Barbarity in 20th Century Europe
• Civilización y barbarie en Europa del siglo XX. Barcelona: Planeta, 1997
• Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39 by Judith Keene and Gabriel Jackson. Leicester University Press, 2001
  • Luchando por Franco: voluntarios europeos al servicio del España fascista. [Barcelona]: Salvat, 2002
• Making of Mediaeval Spain (Library of European Civilization)
• Juan Negrín: physiologist, socialist and Spanish Republican war leader. Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies; Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010
• Costa, Azaña, el Frente Popular y otros ensayos. Barcelona: Crítica, 2008—do.--Madrid: Turner, 1976
• Memoria de un historiador. Madrid: Temas de Hoy, 2001
• Ciudadano Jackson: visiones de la mundo contemporáneo. Barcelona: Martínez Roca, 2001
• Origines de la Guerra fría. Madrid: Información e Historia, 1993
• El Kapellmeister Mozart. Barcelona: Empúries, 1991
  • Mozart. Barcelona: Empúries, 1991
  • El difunto Kapellmeister Mozart. Barcelona: Muchnik, 1991
• Catalunya republicana i revolucionària: 1931–1939. Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1982
• La Guerra civil española: antologia de los principales cronistas de guerra americanos en España (editor) Barcelona: Icaria, 1978
• The Making of Medieval Spain. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972
  • --do.--[New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972
  • Introducción a la España medieval; ed. 3a. Madrid: Alianza, 1979

References

1. "Muere el historiador e hispanista Gabriel Jackson, a los 98 años" (in Spanish). 6 November 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
2. 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.
3. Popkin, J. D. (2005). History, Historians, and Autobiography. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226675435. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
4. "Curso académico 2002-2003 | Fulbright Program in Spain - official Web site". Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
5. "Herbert Baxter Adams Prize". American Historical Association. 1966. Retrieved 2009-02-15.

External links

• Jackson breaks down into tears discussing Spanish history, 37:10 to 37:25
• Tribute to the hispanist Gabriel Jackson, held on Saturday, February 29, 2020, at the Teresa Pàmies Cultural Center in Barcelona.