.... Such are my feelings in reporting the death of Dr. Jorge Basadre on June 29, 1980. On that day Peruvian history lost one of its true giants and Peruvianists everywhere lost a mentor. I know I speak for many when I say that future visits to Lima will not be the same; gone is a vital ingredient...

...Mark Thurner Abstract This article examines the historicist thought of Jorge Basadre (1903–1980). Basadre was Peru’s leading twentieth-century historian, and his brilliant and voluminous opus continues to exert a strong influence in Peru today. Basadre developed a “theory of Peru” that creatively...

...Jorge Basadre The Southern Americas: A New Chronicle . By Plenn Abel . ( New York : Creative Age Press , 1948 . Pp. xiii , 455 . $4.00 .) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...

...Jorge Basadre Copyright 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 ...

...Jorge Basadre The Western Hemisphere Idea: Its Rise and Decline . By Whitaker Arthur P. . Ithaca, N. Y. , 1954 . Cornell University Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 194 . $3.00 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

... but is otherwise the elephant in the room. In fact, the elephant prefigures most if not all the essays before any big name of grand theory can be brought to bear on its object. The name of the elephant is historicism, and its proper Peruvian name or author is Jorge Basadre. This is so because although...

... Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 This issue features an HAHR forum on colonial political economy and an essay on the Peruvian historian Jorge Basadre. In different ways and from different vantage points, each text considers the applicability to Latin American history...

... History’s Peru is not an intellectual history of the idea of Peru but rather a series of critical essays on important works and debates in Peruvian history writing from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Jorge Basadre. These are organized chronologically in an arc that reproduces the canonical understanding...

... and consensus. Jorge Basadre is preeminent in this latter group. In Basadre’s exegesis, to put the matter much too baldly, whatever serves to divide Peruvian from Peruvian—whether person, force, institution, or event—is bad; whatever serves to bring Peruvians into closer harmony, closer cooperation is good...

...David H. Zook, Jr. Historia del Perú desde sus orígenes hasta el presente . 3 vols. By Doig Federico Kauffmann , Tello Julio C. , Barrenechea Raúl Porras , Ugarte Rubén Vargas , Valega José M. , Basadre Jorge . Lima , 1961 . Sociedad Académica de Estudios...

... it. In this combination, the historian he most evokes is Jorge Basadre, with whom he shares the pinnacle of Peru’s historical profession. Throughout his long and distinguished career, the best-known product of which was his monumental Historia de la República del Perú , Basadre set the foundations and the criteria...

... New York and reportedly spent some time with Alfredo Larrañaga, Leguía’s son-in-law, and also with other high Leguiísta officials. 27 Jorge Basadre, the leading Peruvian historian of his generation, noted soon after the election of 1931 that “some people allied personally or for family reasons...

...W. Rex Crawford Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 En torno al Perú y América. Páginas escogidas . By Calderón Francisco García . Prologue by Basadre Jorge . Lima , 1954 . Editorial Juan Mejía Baca . Index . Pp. xlv , 340 . ...

...Watt Stewart Historia de los partidos . By Távara Santiago , edited with notes by Basadre Jorge y Luna Félix Denegri . [ Biblioteca de la República .] ( Lima : Editorial Huascarán , 1951 . Pp. lxx , 264 . Paper .) Copyright 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ...

... Dos documentos sobre Castilla (Una biografía por Juan Gualberto Valdivia y el “Boletín del Ejercito” de 1859-1860) . Introduction by Gallo Manuel Mujica and preliminary notes by Basadre Jorge . Lima , 1954 . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...Ismael Sánchez Bella Los fundamentos de la historia, del derecho. Teoria y técnica de la historia del derecho … By Basadre Jorge . Lima , 1956 . Librería Internacional del Perú . Indexes . Pp. xxiv , 413 . Paper . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...

...Watt Stewart El conde de Lemos y su tiempo: Bosquejo de una evacación y una interpretación del Perú a fines del siglo XVII . By Basadre Jorge . ( Lima : Empresas Eléctricas Asociadas , 1945 . Pp. 477 . Illustrations. Paper .) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...C. A. Hutchinson Memorias para la historia del Perú (1808-1878) . By Echenique José Rufino , prologue by Basadre Jorge , notes by Luna Félix Denegri . [ Biblioteca de la República .] ( 2 vols ., Lima : Editorial Huascarán , 1952 . Pp. lxxi , 396 . Index, illustrations...

...Olga Mingo de Hoffmann Peregrinaciones de una paria . By Tristán Flora . Traducción y notas de Romero Emilia . Prólogo de Basadre Jorge . [ Viajeros en el Perú, Primera serie. I .] ( Lima : Editorial Cultura Antártica, S. A. , 1946 . Pp. xxiii , 444 . U. S. $4.00...