John Tate Lanning

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John Tate Lanning (born 1902, died 15 August 1976, Durham, North Carolina) was a historian of

Spanish Enlightenment in Spanish America challenged received understandings of Spanish obscurantism.[1]

In 1957, Lanning’s book The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment in the University of San Carlos de Guatemala won the first

Herbert E. Bolton Prize of the Conference on Latin American History for the best book in English.[2] He served as editor of The Hispanic American Historical Review, expanding its readership and maintaining high standards for each issue.[3] He served as chair of the Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin American historians, in 1958.[4]

Lanning was a student of Herbert E. Bolton, a leading figure in U.S. borderlands history at

Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930.[5] As editor of The Hispanic American Historical Review, he expanded the circulation of the journal arranging with the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (and later the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace by giving gratis copies to scholars in Latin America.[6]

Works

  • The Spanish missions of Georgia. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina press 1935
  • A Brief Description of Carolina on the Coasts of Florida, editor 1944
  • The legend that Governor Moral Sánchez was hanged. Savannah, Georgia Historical Society, 1954.
  • The Saint Augustine Expedition of 1740: Report of the South Carolina General Assembly, editor, Columbia SC: South Carolina Archives Department 1954
  • Reales cédulas de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Guatemala, Editorial Universitaria, 1954.
  • Academic Culture in the Spanish Colonies. London: Oxford University Press 1940
  • ”Research Possibilities in the Cultural History of Spain in America” ‘’Hispanic American Historical Review’’ 16 (1936)
  • The University in the Kingdom of Guatemala. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press 1955
  • The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment in the University of San Carlos de Guatemala, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press 1956.
  • Pedro de la Torre: Doctor to Conquerors. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press 1974.
  • The royal protomedicato : the regulation of the medical professions in the Spanish empire. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985.

References

  1. ^ Arthur R. Steele, "John Tate Lanning (1902-1976)" The Hispanic American Historical Review” 57, no. 3, 1977, pp. 516.
  2. ^ "CLAH » Bolton-Johnson Prize". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  3. ^ Steele, p. 517.
  4. ^ "CLAH » Elected Officers".
  5. ^ Arthur R. Steele, "John Tate Lanning (1902-1976)" Hispanic American Historical Review 57, no. 3, 1977, pp. 516-519.
  6. ^ Steele, pp. 516-17.
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