Woodrow Borah | |
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| Born | Woodrow Wilson Borah December 23, 1912 Utica, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | December 10, 1999 (aged 86) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA, PhD) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse |
Terry (m. 1945) |
| Children | 2 |
Woodrow Wilson Borah (December 23, 1912 in Utica, Mississippi – December 10, 1999 in Berkeley, California) was an American historian of colonial Mexico, whose research contributions on demography, economics, and social structure made him a major Latin Americanist. With his 1999 death "disappears the last great figure in the generation that presided over the vast expansion of the Latin American scholarly field in the United States during the years following World War II."[1] With colleagues at University of California, Berkeley who came to be known as the "Berkeley School" of Latin American history, Borah pursued projects to gather data from archives on indigenous populations, colonial enterprises, and "land-life" relations that revolutionized the study of Latin American history.[2]