Raymond Carr

Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr (born April 11, 1919 in Bath - † April 19, 2015 ) was a British historian who mainly dealt with Spain and Latin America.

Carr studied at the University of Oxford , was a lecturer at University College London in 1945/46 , a fellow at All Souls College in Oxford from 1946 to 1953 and a fellow at New College in Oxford from 1953 to 1964. He then became a fellow at St Antony's College in 1964 and was Warden (Rector) of St. Antony College from 1968 until his retirement in 1987 (his successor was Ralf Dahrendorf ). At the same time he was director of the Latin America Center in Oxford from 1964 to 1968 and professor of Latin American history from 1967/68. He founded the Iberian Center at St Antony's College, which he directed with Joaquin Romero Maura.

In 1992 he was King Juan Carlos Professor of Spanish History at New York University .

He is particularly concerned with Spanish history in the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of Latin America and Swedish history.

In 1978 he became a Fellow of the British Academy and was a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia . In 1983 he received the Grand Cross of the Spanish Order Alfonso X el Sabio and in 1999 the Prince of Asturias Prize . He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature. Carr was an external member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He also wrote books about his hobby, fox hunting , one of them with his wife Sara Carr.

In 1987 he was knighted ( Knight Bachelor ). He was an honorary doctor of Christ Church College , Oxford and Complutense University of Madrid .

Fonts (selection)

• Spain 1808-1939 , Oxford University Press, 1966
• Publisher: Latin American Affairs , Oxford University Press, 1970
• The Republic and the Civil War in Spain , 1971
• The Spanish Tragedy: the Civil War in Perspective , 1977
• with Juan Pablo Fusi: Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy , 1979
• Modern Spain: 1875-1980 , 1980
• Spain 1808-1975 , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982
• Puerto Rico: a colonial experiment , 1984
• Published by: The Spanish Civil War: A History in Pictures , New York, WW Norton & Co., 1986
• Editor: The Chances of Death: a diary of the Spanish Civil War , 1995
• Visiones de fin de siglo , 1999
• Published in: Spain: a history , 2000
• Two Swedish Financiers: Louis De Geer and Joel Gripenstierna , in HE Bell, RL Ollard, eds., Historical Essays Presented to David Ogg , London: Black, 1963

• with Sara Carr: Fox-Hunting , Oxford University Press, 1982
• English Fox Hunting: A History , London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1976, 2nd edition 1986

literature

• María Jesús González: Raymond Carr, curiosity of the fox, Sussex Academic Press 2013
• Gina Thomas; The merry poor fox. On the death of the historian Raymond Carr. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 22, 2015, No. 93, p. 12.
• Paul Preston : Raymond Carr (1919–2015), in: Bulletin of Spanish Studies 94 (2017), pp. 527–533.

Web links

• Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
• The historiador of británico Raymond Carr