Edward Gaylord Bourne, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Gaylord Bourne

American historian

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1860

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1908

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph.
D.
(June 24, 1860 – February 24, 1908) was an American historian, born in Strykersville, New York, and educated at Yale graduating in 1883 with high honors.
He taught at Adelbert College, Cleveland from 1888 - 1895 when he became a Professor of History at Yale.
Bourne is considered one of the founders of Latin American history as a field in the United States.
The publication of his Spain in America (1904), was "a major landmark in the development of the field," which "gave a lucid synthesis of the institutional life of Spanish America, ranging also through economic, social, and cultural developments...." In an assessment of Bourne's work, Charles Gibson and Benjamin Keen state that "He may justifiably be termed the first scientific historian of the United States to view the Spanish colonial process dispassionately and thereby to escape the conventional Anglo-Protestant attitudes of outraged or tolerant disparagement."