Richard L. Kagan

Richard Lauren Kagan (* 1943 ) is an American historian and professor and the author of several works.

Career

Kagan's parents ran a wire mill in New Jersey. Due to his great interest in history, he decided against joining the family business. He studied history at Columbia University and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1968 .

From 1972 to 2013 he was Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University . In his research he mainly dealt with the history of modern Europe. He placed particular emphasis on the intellectual and legal history of the Spanish Empire under the Habsburgs . He also dealt with the history of art , the history of cartography and the history of urban planning . His method involves the integration of literature into history studies, which is why he was also appointed professor at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature.

His works deal with various topics from the Spanish colonial empire as well as its effects in North America. Kagan has received visiting professorships in several Spanish universities, including Madrid , Seville , Barcelona and Granada . He has also held teaching positions at the University of Minnesota , Bielefeld University and the University of Florida .

reception

Kagan is received positively by many colleagues. The methods and content of his research are valued by an international academic audience. In a review by Kimberly and Rowe of Kagan, for example, his success in the English-speaking and international arenas is mentioned and the achievement of an international academic audience is valued. His work Lucrecia's Dreams and its success is mentioned, as well as his subsequent works are characterized by a positive reception.

In a lengthy preface to The Earley Modern Hispanic World, Geoffrey Parker mentions Kagan's senior figure as a mentor to his students and describes his academic career in a laudatory tone.

JB Owen's review mentions Geoffrey Parker's praise for Kagan's work, as well as Kagan's central role in American historical discipline. Geoffrey Parker expresses his criticism regarding the lack of interdisciplinarity in some of Kagan's works. Even so, Kagan is described as an advocate for the inclusion of social science in the study of history.

Awards

Comendador, Orden de Isabel la Católica (June 23, 1997)
Resident Member, American Philosophical Society (2011)
Corresponding Member, Hispanic Society of America
Corresponding Member, Real Academia de la Historia , Madrid, Spain (2012)

Fonts

Students and Society in Early Modern Spain (1974)
Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 (1981)
Spanish Cities of the Golden Age (1989)
Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (1990)
With Geoffrey Parker : Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World (1995)
Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (2000)
Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States (2002)
Inquisitorial Inquiries: The Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics (2004)
With Philip D. Morgan : Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos and Crypto-Jews, the Age of Mercantilism (2008)
Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2009), Johns Hopkins University Press
The Spanish Craze: America's Fascination with the Hispanic World 1779-1939 (2019), University of Nebraska Press

Web links

Richard Kagan The Academy at Johns Hopkins website

Individual evidence

^ Geoffrey Parker : Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .
^ Geoffrey Parker: Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .
^ Geoffrey Parker: Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .
↑ Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017.
^ Geoffrey Parker: Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches . Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .
↑ Jack B. Owens: Review of Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe, The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches . In: Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies . Volume 42, No. 16, 2017, pp. 141-146.

personal data
SURNAME	Kagan, Richard L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kagan, Richard Lauren (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1943

[1] Geoffrey Parker : Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .

[2] Geoffrey Parker: Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .

[3] Geoffrey Parker: Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .

[Lynn_Rowe-4] Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017.

[5] Geoffrey Parker: Preface: Richard L. Kagan, an Appreciation. In: Kimberly Lynn, Erin Kathleen Rowe: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches . Cambridge University Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-10928-5 .

[6] Jack B. Owens: Review of Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe, The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches . In: Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies . Volume 42, No. 16, 2017, pp. 141-146.