KEEN, Benjamin

KEEN, Benjamin. American, b. 1913. Genres: History. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor in history, 1943-45; Amherst College, Amherst, MA, assistant professor of history, 1945-46; West Virginia University, Morgantown, associate professor of history, 1946-56; Jersey City State College, Jersey City, NJ, professor of history, 1956-59; Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, professor of history, 1959-81; writer, editor, and translator. Publications: David Curtis DeForest and the Revolution of Buenos Aires, 1947; (ed.) Readings in Latin American Civilization, 1492 to the Present, 1955, 3rd ed. as Latin American Civilization, Vol. I: The Colonial Origins, Vol. II: The National Era, 1974, 4th ed. as Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 to the Present, 1986; (ed. and trans.) Fernando Colon, The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand, 1959; (trans.) Alonso de Zorita, Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico: The Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain, 1963; (ed.) Americans All: The Story of Our Latin American Neighbors, 1966; The Aztec Image in Western Thought, 1971; (ed. with J. Friede) Bartolome de las Cases in History: Toward an Understanding of the Man and His Work, 1971; (trans.) Bartholome Bennassar, The Spanish Character: Attitudes and Mentalities from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, 1979; (with M. Wasserman) A Short History of Latin America, 1980; (trans.) Jacques Lafaye, Quetzal- coatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813, 1987; Essays in the Intellectual History of Colonial Latin America, 1998. Died 2002.