Gabriel Jackson

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

^ [1]
^ Popkin, Jeremy D. History, Historians, & Autobiography p.178 University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0226675432, 9780226675435
^ ^a ^b Fulbright Program in Spain - official Web site
^ "Herbert Baxter Adams Prize". American Historical Association. 1966. http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/AdamsWinner.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-15.

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