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Henry A. Kamen
(
Yangon
,
Birmania
, 1936) es un
historiador
britanic, resident a
Barcelona
.
Henry Arthur Kamen va neixer a
Yangon
en 1936,
[1]
fill de Maurice Joseph Kamen, un enginyer
anglobirma
que treballava per a la Shell Oil, i la seva esposa Agnes Frizelle, d'ascendencia mig
angloirlandesa
i mig
nepalesa
.
[2]
Va estudiar en la
Universitat d'Oxford
i va obtenir el seu doctorat al St. Antony's College, Oxford. Posteriorment va ensenyar a les Universitats d'
Edimburg
i de
Warwick
,
[3]
i a diverses universitats d'
Espanya
i dels
Estats Units
. En 1970 va ser escollit membre de la
Royal Historical Society
(Londres). En 1984 va ser nomenat a la catedra Herbert F. Johnson, de l'Institute for Research in the Humanities,
Universitat de Wisconsin-Madison
. Va ser professor del Consell Superior d'Investigacions Cientifiques (
CSIC
) a Barcelona des de 1993 fins a la seva jubilacio en 2002. Des de llavors ha continuat donant conferencies, i escrivint, i viu actualment entre els
Estats Units
i Barcelona. Es un col·laborador actiu a les pagines del diari espanyol
El Mundo
.
Ell considera que els punts mes estimulants de la seva carrera han estat quan va ser rebut pel Papa
Joan Pau II
durant una reunio privada al Vatica, i quan la reina
Sofia de Grecia
es va esmunyir en una de les seves classes com a estudiant i va prendre notes durant una conferencia que estava donant en un Curs d'Estiu de la Universitat Internacional Menendez Pelayo, a
Santander
.
[4]
Fortament influenciat pels metodes de recerca i filosofia social dels historiadors de l'escola francesa de la revista
Annales
, ha intentat combinar historia quantitativa amb analisi sociologica i narrativa accessible. Abandonant una fase anterior, quan es dedicava a l'estadistica historica economica, ha produit una serie de biografies dels reis d'Espanya, que ell considera indegudament desateses. Tambe ha estat un dels principals historiadors que han atacat la visio tradicional de la
Inquisicio espanyola
. El seu llibre de 1998 proporciona amplies proves que la Inquisicio no estava composta de fanatics que s'alegraven en tortures i execucions i que, per exemple, les presons de la Inquisicio estaven millor organitzades i eren mes humanitaries que les presons civils espanyoles.
[5]
Publicacions (seleccio)
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- The Iron Century: Social Change in Europe, 1550?1660.
New York: Praeger Publishers (1972)
- "A Forgotten Insurrection of the Seventeenth Century: The Catalan Peasant Rising of 1688,"
The Journal of Modern History
, Vol. 49, No. 2 (June 1977), pp. 210?30.
- Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century.
London: Longman (1980)
- Golden Age Spain.
Basingstoke: Macmillan Education (1988)
- European Society 1500?1700.
New York; London: Routledge (1984)(1992) [revision of
The Iron Century
]
- "Lo Statista" in "L'uomo barocco" (R. Villari, ed.) Laterza, Bari, Italy (1991)
- The Phoenix and the Flame. Catalonia and the Counter-Reformation.
London and New Haven: Yale University Press (1993)
[1]
Arxivat
2011-06-06 a
Wayback Machine
.
- Philip of Spain.
New Haven: Yale University Press (1997)
[2]
Arxivat
2012-10-10 a
Wayback Machine
.
- The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision.
London and New Haven: Yale University Press (1997)
[3]
- La Inquisicion espanola: una revision historica
. Barcelona: Critica, 1999,
ISBN 84-7423-953-2
[6]
- Early Modern European Society.
London: Routledge (2000)
[4]
- Philip V of Spain: The King Who Reigned Twice.
New Haven: Yale University Press (2001).
- Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492?1763.
New York: HarperCollins (2003)
[5]
- The Duke of Alba.
London and New Haven: Yale University Press (2004)
[6]
- Spain 1469?1714: a Society of Conflict.
Londres i Nova York: Longman (2005)
[7]
- The Disinherited; Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492?1975.
New York: HarperCollins (2007)
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Arxivat
2011-12-23 a
Wayback Machine
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- Imagining Spain. Historical Myth and National Identity.
London and New Haven: Yale University Press (2008)
[9]
- The Escorial. Art and Power in the Renaissance.
London and New Haven: Yale University Press (2010)
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Articles (seleccio)
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- Sobre
Philip of Spain
, by M.N. Carlos Eire in
Renaissance Quarterly
, vol.52, 1999, "Kamen's Philip is a stunning achievement, not only because of its revisionist outlook and its use of sources, but also because of its style and structure. This is an exemplary piece of scholarship that reads very much like a good novel".
- Sobre
Empire
, a
The Daily Telegraph
, "A boldly conceived project that sustains its case with a pugnacious elan that carries the reader through to the final page":
[11]
i a
The Guardian
, "brilliant ... lucid, scholarly and perceptive ... a revelation":
[12]
- Sobre
The Disinherited
, in
The Guardian
, "Wonderfully accomplished, beautifully told":
[13]
i a
The Weekly Standard
, Washington DC, "Henry Kamen is the finest historian of Spain presently writing in any language":
[14]
- Sobre
Imagining Spain
, Eric Ormsby a
The New York Sun
, "Drawing on archival sources, unpublished manuscripts, and a vast body of scholarship in several languages, he takes a fresh look at Spanish notions of nationhood, monarchy, and empire. . . . Only someone who loves Spain deeply could have written this book.":
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Arxivat
2011-06-06 a
Wayback Machine
.
- Sobre
The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance
, Prof Patrick Williams, a
Literary Review
(London), June 2010: "Lively and contentious, informed by a profound understanding of the period, and, as always, elegantly written."
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