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2013-03-01

Social History and the Study of "Great Men"? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography

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history, United States, biography, social history, historiography, Latin America (es)

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  • John French Duke University

The rise of social history in the sixties sparked heated debate while
rejecting biography on behalf of a deeper forms of explanation, especially
in the socio-economic realm (base) conceptualized in structural and
systemic terms. This article will test the accuracy of social history’s
criticism of the U.S. scholarly community associated with Hispanic
American Historical Review —HAHR— from its formative years (1910-
1920) through its consolidation in the forties. It does so by examining the
historical scholarship of William Spence Robertson, a HAHR founder who
wrote authoritative biographical monographs on Francisco de Miranda
(1929) and Mexico’s Iturbide (1952). While offering an interpretation of
HAHR as a U.S. disciplinary journal, it asks if Robertson’s professional
production is best understood as an expression of a prevailing “great
man theory of history” while exploring the evolving reception of his
work at mid-century. It ends by offering a critique of the theoretical
underpinnings of the anti-biographical disposition of so many historians
even today and explores how it derives from a combination of certain
formulations of Marxism with structuralist, and post-structuralist doxa.

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French, John. 2013. «Social History and the Study of “Great Men”? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography». Anuario Colombiano De Historia Social Y De La Cultura 40 (1Esp):99-138. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/46972.

ACM

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French, J. 2013. Social History and the Study of "Great Men"? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography. Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura. 40, 1Esp (mar. 2013), 99–138.

ACS

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French, J. Social History and the Study of "Great Men"? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography. Anu. colomb. histo. soc. cult. 2013, 40, 99-138.

APA

French, J. (2013). Social History and the Study of "Great Men"? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography. Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, 40(1Esp), 99–138. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/46972

ABNT

FRENCH, J. Social History and the Study of "Great Men"? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography. Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, [S. l.], v. 40, n. 1Esp, p. 99–138, 2013. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/46972. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2024.

Harvard

French, J. (2013) «Social History and the Study of “Great Men”? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography», Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, 40(1Esp), pp. 99–138. Disponible en: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/46972 (Accedido: 29 marzo 2024).

IEEE

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J. French, «Social History and the Study of “Great Men”? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography», Anu. colomb. histo. soc. cult., vol. 40, n.º 1Esp, pp. 99–138, mar. 2013.

MLA

French, J. «Social History and the Study of “Great Men”? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography». Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, vol. 40, n.º 1Esp, marzo de 2013, pp. 99-138, https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/46972.

Turabian

French, John. «Social History and the Study of “Great Men”? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography». Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 40, no. 1Esp (marzo 1, 2013): 99–138. Accedido marzo 29, 2024. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/46972.

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French J. Social History and the Study of "Great Men"? The Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate About Biography. Anu. colomb. histo. soc. cult. [Internet]. 1 de marzo de 2013 [citado 29 de marzo de 2024];40(1Esp):99-138. Disponible en: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/46972

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