Modernity and Independence
Essays on the Hispanic Revolutions
About the Author
Latin Americanist historian devoted to the study of modernity in the Spanish-American countries and its clash with tradition. He moved to France in 1962 and became a French citizen in 1969. He studied History at the Sorbonne, where in 1965 he earned an advanced studies diploma with the thesis Le premier journal marxiste français: L'Égalité de Jules Guesde, 1797-1882, and in 1967 he obtained a diploma in Political Science in Grenoble. He specialized in the history of the labor movement in Europe and communist Russia but, being unable to consult the Soviet archives, he turned to the study of the Mexican Revolution, the first great revolution of the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Paris and served as director of the Centre de Recherches d'Histoire de l'Amérique Latine et du Monde Ibérique, research director at the Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, member of the scientific council of the Centre d'Études Mexicaines et Centraméricaines, corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of History, and member of the scientific council of eleven history journals in Latin America and Europe.
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