Hugh C. Brooks
Hugh C. Brooks | |
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| Born | June 19, 1922 Seattle, WA, USA |
| Died | October 8, 2008 (aged 86) Pembroke Pines, FL, USA |
| Occupation | Geographer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1954 - 2008 |
| Subject | Economic Geography, African History |
Hugh C. Brooks (June 19, 1922 – October 8, 2008) was an American economic geographer, author, educator, and historian who specialized in the history and political economy of Africa.
Life and career
Brooks was born in
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Brooks' first wife, Savina Vicini, died in 1994. They had two children, Robert and Alison. (Robert "Bobby" Brooks was an entertainment agent who died in the same helicopter crash with Stevie Ray Vaughan.)[8] Brooks then married Beatrice Shelley and lived in Pembroke Pines, Florida, until his death in 2008.[1][9]
Scholarship
Brooks co-authored a textbook (with George T. Renner), Directed Studies in Introductory College Geography (1958), as well as (with Bertrand P. Boucher) Field Trips in New Jersey (1962), and (with Richard Keppel) Effective Teaching With Aero-View Transparencies: A Comprehensive Visual Presentation of the Geography, History and Economic Assets of the United States of America (1964). While consulting with McGraw-Hill, Sadlier, and Grolier in the late 1960s, he developed several textbooks for younger students, including Africa: A High School Geography (1966), Africa: A Junior High School Geography (1966), and The Old World: Africa (1968). He co-authored several books on African geography and culture: (with Michael G. Mensoian) Arab World, New Africa (1969); (with Yosef ben-Jochannan and Kempton Webb) Africa: Lands, Peoples, and Cultures of the World (1969); and (with William Norris, and David Dicker) The People of New Africa (1972).[1]
Brooks also produced three books with colleagues from St. John's: (co-editor with Yassin El-Ayouty) Refugees South of the Sahara: An African Dilemma (1970); (co-editor with Yassin El-Ayouty) Africa and International Organization (1974); and (with Francis A. Lees) The Economic and Political Development of the Sudan (1977). He also contributed articles on seven African countries to Grolier's Lands and Peoples reference set, which was first published in 1972 but subsequently went through over ten editions. Brooks worked with the Image Bank in the late 1980s to select photographs for a projected coffee-table book, Africa: The Land and the People, but it was never published.[1]
Bibliography
- "Bobby Brooks Service to Be Held Thursday," Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1990.
- "PFC Hugh C Brooks," Find A Grave website, 19 January 2020.
- "Hugh C. Brooks," Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2001, Literature Resource Center, Web. 19 December 2014.
- "Obituary of Hugh Campbell Brooks," New York Times, October 11, 2008.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Hugh C. Brooks," Contemporary Authors Online.
- ^ "PFC Hugh C Brooks," Find A Grave website.
- ^ "University Establishes African Institute: Brooks Named Director," St. John's University Alumni News, Vol. 3, no. 3 (November 1961): 3; "Dr. Brooks Named as Director of Institute," The Torch, December 7, 1961, 1, 2.
- ^ Brooks, Hugh C. "The African Institute," Redman: St. John's University Alumni Magazine, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Winter 1961-62): 11-13.
- ^ Fowler, Dave. "African Studies Dropped," The Torch, February 2, 1977, 5.
- ^ "News from the Institutes," The St. John's University Humanities Newsletter, Vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring 1965): 3.
- ^ ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database.
- ^ "Bobby Brooks Service to Be Held Thursday," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, 1990.
- ^ "Obituary of Hugh Campbell Brooks," New York Times, October 11, 2008.