Edward Gaylord Bourne
Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph. D. (June 24, 1860 – February 24, 1908) was an
American historian. He was born in
Strykersville, New York, and educated at
Yale graduating in 1883 with high honors. He taught at
Adelbert College, Cleveland from 1888 to 1895 when he became a professor of history at Yale. Bourne is considered one of the founders of
Latin American history as a field in the United States. The publication of his ''Spain in America'' (1904), was "a major landmark in the development of the field," which "gave a lucid synthesis of the institutional life of Spanish America, ranging also through economic, social, and cultural developments...." In an assessment of Bourne's work,
Charles Gibson and
Benjamin Keen state that "He may justifiably be termed the first scientific historian of the United States to view the Spanish colonial process dispassionately and thereby to escape the conventional Anglo-Protestant attitudes of outraged or tolerant disparagement."
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