Tulio Halperin Donghi (October 27, 1926 – November 14, 2014) was an Argentine historian. After earning a Ph.D in history and a law degree at the

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, he taught at the institution's Faculty of Arts from 1955 to 1966. Halperin Donghi then moved to the National University of the Litoral, where he was named dean. He later taught at

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, and became a faculty member of the

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in 1972.

Biography

Halperin Donghi was born in

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in 1926. He received both a ''

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'' and a Doctorate in History from the

in 1955. Halperín became a renowned

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n historian. Exiled in 1966, following the '' Noche de los Bastones Largos'' ight of the Long Batons he divided his time between the

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and the

. Halperin was given an award for Scholarly Distinction from the

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in 1998,Spring 2008 Calendar of Events
, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. and authored numerous books.

Books

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Un conflicto nacional: moriscos y cristianos viejos en Valencia
', 1957 *
Tradición política española e ideología revolucionaria de Mayo
', 1961 *
Historia contemporánea de América Latina
', 1967
other editions
*
El Río de la Plata al comenzar el siglo XIX
', 1961 *
Historia de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
', 1962 *
Revolución y Guerra: Formación de una élite dirigente en la Argentina criolla
', 1972 *
The Aftermath of Revolution in Latin America
' (translation of ''Hispanoamérica después de la independencia''), 1973 *
Politics, Economics and Society in Argentina in the Revolutionary Period
' (translation of ''Revolución y Guerra''), 1975 *
La democracia de masas
', 1991 *
The Contemporary History of Latin America
' (translation of ''Historia de América Latina''), 1993 *
Proyecto y construcción de una Nación
', 1996 *
Son Memorias
', 2008
La Argentina y la Tormenta Del Mundo: Ideas e Ideologías Entre 1930 y 1945

References

External links

Google Books listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Halperin Donghi, Tulio 1926 births 2014 deaths Writers from Buenos Aires Latin Americanists Historians of Latin America Argentine male writers 20th-century Argentine historians University of Buenos Aires alumni Academic staff of the National University of the Littoral Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Academics of the University of Oxford