Gabriel Jackson is an American Hispanist

Hispanist

A Hispanist is a scholar specialising in Hispanic studies, that is Spanish or Portuguese language, literature, linguistics, or civilization, and by extension, Basque, Catalan and Galician....

, historian and journalist. He was born in New York. He is a leading authority on the Second Spanish Republic

Second Spanish Republic

The Second Spanish Republic was the government of Spain between April 14 1931, and its destruction by a military rebellion, led by General Francisco Franco....

 and the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

. Since his retirement he has lived in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

Spain

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A victim of McCarthyism

McCarthyism

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, he studied at Harvard and Stanford before attaining his doctorate at Université de Toulouse. A Fulbright

Fulbright Program

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 scholar (1960-1961), he obtained his professorship in 1965 and is Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

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A disciple of both Jaume Vicens i Vives

Jaume Vicens i Vives

Jaume Vicens Vives was a Spanish historian, and is considered, along with Pierre Vilar, one of top influential Catalan historians of 20th century....

 and prominent French historian Pierre Vilar

Pierre Vilar

Pierre Vilar was a French historian specialized in the history of Catalonia and hispanism. He is considered one of the most authoritative 20th century historians for the history of Spain, for both the Ancien Régime and modern history...

, Jackson has been a regular collaborator of the Spanish daily El País for many years.

In 1966 he was awarded the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

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's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

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, and in 2002, Spain's prestigious Nebrija Prize from the University of Salamanca

University of Salamanca

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Works

• The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-39 (1965)
• The Spanish Civil War: Domestic Crisis or international Conspiracy (1966)
• Historian's Quest (1969)
• A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War (1974)
• Civilization & Barbarity in 20th Century Europe
• Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Judith Keene and Gabriel Jackson
• Making of Mediaeval Spain (Library of European Civilization)