Robin Humphreys
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Robert Arthur Humphreys
Life and career
Born on 6 June 1907, Humphreys was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1934 he was appointed assistant lecturer in American history at University College London (UCL).
During the
After the war he returned to UCL and was promoted to reader, becoming, in 1948, the UK's first professor of Latin American history.[1]
In 1965 Humphreys was the founding Director of the University of London's Institute of Latin American Studies, a position he held until 1974. From 1965 to 1969 he also served as the President of the Royal Historical Society.[1]
He died on 2 May 1999 aged 91.[2]
Works
- British Consular Reports on the Trade and Politics of Latin America, 1824-1826 (1940)[3]
- Latin America (1941)
- "The Study of Latin-American History in England"[4]
- William Robertson and his History of America (1954)
- "William Hickling Prescott: The Man and the Historian" (1959)[5]
- Tradition and Revolt in Latin America, and other essays (1969) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc[2]
- Latin America and the Second World War (2 vols., 1981–82)[6][2]
- Volume 1: 1939 - 1942, Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1-47428-822-4
- Volume 2: 1942 - 1945, Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1-47428-825-5
- Volume 1: 1939 - 1942, Bloomsbury Academic,
References
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- ^ H-Net Discussion Networks. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- ^ London: Royal Historical Society 1940.
- ^ Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 24 (no. 94) 1947, pp. 146-53.
- ^ The Hispanic American Historical Review, 39-1-19 (Feb. 1959)
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