Charles Gibson (historian)

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Charles Gibson
Born(1920-08-12)August 12, 1920
DiedAugust 22, 1985(1985-08-22) (aged 65)
Ethnohistorian

Charles Gibson (August 12, 1920 – August 22, 1985) was an

colonial Mexico and was elected President of the American Historical Association in 1977.[1][2][3]

He studied history at

conquest of Mexico, was the first major study of conquest and the early colonial era Nahuas from the indigenous perspective. It remains a model for scholars working on Mesoamerican ethnohistory.[4]

He also contributed to the creation of important bibliographic guides to works in

Hispanic American Historical Review. The culmination of his work on colonial-era Nahuas is The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810 (1964), which "reordered the research priorities for a generation of colonial historians."[5]

Works

References

  1. ^ Robert A. Potash [es], "Charles Gibson (August 12, 1920 - August 22, 1985, Handbook of Latin American Studies, vol. 48, p. v.
  2. ^ Chevalier, François (May 1986). "Charles Gibson (1920–1985)". The Hispanic American Historical Review 66 (2): 349–351.
  3. ^ James Lockhart,"Charles Gibson and the Ethnohistory of Postconquest Central Mexico" in Nahuas and Spaniards Stanford: Stanford University Press 1993, pages=159–182
  4. ^ Lockhart, "Charles Gibson and the Ethnohistory of Postconquest Central Mexico."
  5. ^ Potash, "Charles Gibson," p. v.