Philip Wayne Powell
Philip Wayne Powell (1913–1987) was an American
American Southwest
.
He was born in
Ph.D. in 1941, and joined the Army
.
In 1943 he taught at the
Professor Emeritus in 1981. His research focused on the theme of the Spanish borderlands
between Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon America and the earliest colonial history of the American Southwest.
Among his several influential books are Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600 (1952) and Mexico's Miguel Caldera: The Taming of America's First Frontier, 1548-1594 (1977). Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting Relations with the Hispanic World (1971) is about the relations between the United States and Spain and Latin America.
Powell died of a
heart attack in Santa Barbara on September 17, 1987.[1] The Philip and Maria Powell Prize was established in the History Department at UCSB to recognize outstanding graduate students in Latin American or Iberian history.[2]
References
Further reading
- Folsom, Raphael B. “Philip Wayne Powell, the Cold War, and the Conquest of Northern Mexico.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, vol. 31, no. 2, 2015, pp. 287–304. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/msem.2015.31.2.287.
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