biography
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Hanke, Lewis (Ulysses)
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| (1905–93)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Oregon City, Oregon, USA. Educated at Northwestern (1924 BS; 1925 MA) and Harvard (1936 PhD), he taught at the University of Texas (1951–61), Columbia University (1961–7), the University of California, Irvine (1967–9), and the University of Massachusetts (1969–75; professor emeritus, 1975). He directed the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress (1939–51), was special assistant to the US secretary of state for Latin-American Affairs, and member of the US National Commission for UNESCO (1952–4). Often credited with establishing Latin-American history as a viable academic discipline in the USA, his international reputation is reflected by his many international honorary degrees. His personal scholarship focused on the Spanish viceroys and Dominican missionary Bartolome de Las Casas, and he organized massive sources into usable forms. His Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the US, 1945–1980 (5 vols, 1985), reveals how foreigners study the USA. In 1992 he received the Nebrija Award, one of Spain's highest cultural honours. |
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