Readings in Latin-American Civilization, 1492 to the present

Keen, Benjamin, Ed. Readings in Latin-American civilization, 1492 to the present, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1956

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Benjamin Keen (1913–2002) was an American historian specialising in the history of colonial Latin America.[1] After receiving his PhD from Yale in the 1950s during the McCarthy-era Red Scare he was blacklisted for his progressive political attitudes and had to work as an editor in an East Coast publishing house until he was hired as a professor by the Northern Illinois University in 1965. He retired in 1981. In 1985 he received the Distinguished Service Award of the Conference of Latin American History.[2]