Gabriel Jackson (Hispanist)
{{Short description|American Hispanist (1921–2019)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Gabriel Jackson
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| alt = Gabriel Jackson
| caption = Gabriel Jackson
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| occupation = American Hispanist
| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|3|10}}
| birth_place = Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
| death_date= {{Death date and age|2019|11|3|1921|3|10}}
| death_place = Ashland, Oregon, U.S.
}}
Gabriel Jackson (March 10, 1921 – November 3, 2019){{cite web |url= https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/11/06/actualidad/1573077273_294449.html|title= Muere el historiador e hispanista Gabriel Jackson, a los 98 años|accessdate=6 November 2019|date=6 November 2019|lang= es}} was an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1921.{{cite book|title=Historians of Latin America in the United States, 1965: biobibliographies of 680 specialists|author1=Cline, H. F.|author2=Conference on Latin American History|date=1966|publisher=Published for the Conference on Latin American History [by] Duke University Press|isbn=9780822300366 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irdlAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-09-10}} After his retirement he lived in Barcelona, Spain.
A victim of McCarthyism,{{cite book|title=History, Historians, and Autobiography|author=Popkin, J. D.|date=2005|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226675435|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4nU_4_6e0wsC|accessdate=2015-09-10}} he studied at Harvard and Stanford before attaining his doctorate at Université de Toulouse. A Fulbright scholar (1960–1961), he obtained his professorship in 1965 and was Professor Emeritus at the 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/AdamsWinner.htm|title= Herbert Baxter Adams Prize|year=1966|publisher=American Historical Association|accessdate=2009-02-15}} and in 2002, Spain's prestigious Nebrija Prize from the University of Salamanca.{{cite web |url=https://www.fulbright.es/book/print/185 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222103434/http://www.fulbright.es/book/print/185 |archive-date=2007-02-22 |url-status=dead |title=Curso académico 2002-2003 | Fulbright Program in Spain - official Web site |accessdate=2015-09-14 }}
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
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1ueJcFC3Y 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. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hzA4AYNTw&feature=youtu.be]
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Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:University of Toulouse alumni
Category:University of California, San Diego faculty
Category:Historians from New York (state)
Category:Writers from Mount Vernon, New York
Category:American expatriates in Spain
Category:American expatriates in France
Category:Journalists from New York (state)
Category:21st-century American journalists
Category:20th-century American journalists
Category:American male journalists
Category:21st-century American male writers