Keywords
Interviews, Documentary collections, Latin American studies, Labor movement, Cultural cold war.
Interviews
Documentary collections
Latin American studies
Labor movement
Cultural cold war
Interviews
Documentary collections
Latin American studies
Labor movement
Cultural cold war
Abstract
Pioneering Latin Americanist Robert Jackson Alexander (1918-) was a central player in U.S.-Latin American labor, political, and scholarly affairs after World War II. For some five decades starting in 1946, Professor Alexander traveled extensively as an engaged witness to, and active participant in, many major political events in Latin America and the Caribbean. The unique documentation Alexander created and assembled (the largest and most important private archive of its sort) is deposited with the Special Collections and University Archives of Rutgers University.1 The crown jewel of this remarkable collection are his contemporaneous notes on over ten thousand interviews he conducted with presidents, politicians, trade unionists, businessmen, government officials, military men, diplomats, and scholars. Although specialists knew of these interviews, few historians have realized the scope of this comprehensive multinational resource, which documents modern Latin America's tumultuous political and diplomatic history.
References
Alexander, Robert J., Prophets of the Revolution: Profiles of Latin American Leaders, New York, Macmillan, 1962.
Alexander, Robert J.,Arturo Alessandri: A Biography, Ann Arbor, Latin American Institute of Rutgers University and University Microflms International, 1977.
Alexander, Robert J., The Tragedy of Chile, Westport, Conn., Greenwood, 1978.
Alexander, Robert J.,Juan Domingo Perón: A History, Boulder, Westview, 1979.
Alexander, Robert J.. Rómulo Betancourt and the Transformation of Venezuela, New Brunswick, Transaction, 1982.
Alexander, Robert J., “Reflections on the Use of Interviews As Primary Sources”, The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, June 1987.
Alexander, Robert J., Venezuela’s Voice for Democracy: Conversations and Correspondence with Rómulo Betancourt, New York. Praeger, 1990.
Alexander, Robert J., Juscelino Kubitschek and the Development of Brazil, Athens, Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1991.
Alexander, Robert J., The ABC Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1992.
Alexander, Robert J., The Bolivarian Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with Presidents of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1994.
Alexander, Robert J., Presidents of Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and Hispaniola: Conversations and Correspondence, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1995.
Alexander, Robert J., Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Governors of the English-speaking Caribbean and Puerto Rico: Conversations and Correspondence, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1997.
Alexander, Robert J.,, Maoism in the Developed World, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 2001.
Alexander, Robert J., International Maoism in the Developing World, Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999.;
Alexander, Robert J., A History of Organized Labor in Brazil, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 2003).
Berger, Mark T., Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas, 1898–1990, Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1995.
Bergquist, Charles, Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia, Stanford, Stanford Univ. Press, 1986,
Delpar, Helen, “Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Mexicanist, 1914–1933”, en The Americas, vol. 45, n° 2, 1988, pp. 153–72.
Erickson, Kenneth Paul, Patrick Peppe y Hobart Spalding, “Research on the Urban Working Class and Organized Labor in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile: What Is Left to Be Done?”, en Latin American Research Review, vol. 9, n° 2, 1974.
French, John D., Robert Alexander: The Complete Bibliography of a Pioneering Latin Americanist, Miami, Center for Labor Research and Studies, Florida International Univ., 1991.
French, John D., The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflicts and Alliances in Modern São Paulo, Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992.
French, John D., Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture, Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Kohr, Leopold, “Review of ‘The Bolivian National Revolution’ by Robert J. Alexander”, Annals of the American Academy, n° 328, 1960,
Landsberger, Henry A., “The Labor Elite: Is It Revolutionary?”, en Elites in Latin America, ed. Seymour Martin
Lipset and Aldo Solari, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1967.
Lavretskii, I. R., “A Survey of the Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956–1958”, en Latin American History: Essays on Its Study and Teaching, 1898-1965, ed. Howard F. Cline, Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1967.
Mitchell, Christopher, The Legacy of Populism in Bolivia: From the MNR to Military Rule, New York, Praeger, 1977.
Morgan, Ted, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster, New York, Random House, 1999.
Kofas, Jon V., The Struggle for Legitimacy: Latin American Labor and the United States, 1930–1960, Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State Univ., 1992.
Pavilack, Jody, Modern Chile: Indexes of the Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection, 1946–90, Durham and Chapel Hill: Duke-UNC, 1999.
Pavilack, Jody y David Sartorius, Modern Cuba: Indexes of the Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection, Durham; Chapel Hill: Duke-UNC, 1999..
Pavilack, Jody, “‘Black Gold in the Red Zone’: Repression and Contention in Chilean Coal Mining Communities from the Popular Front to the Advent of the Cold War”, Tesis doctoral, Duke University,, 2003.
Perrone, Fernanda, Robert Jackson Alexander Papers, 1890 (1945)–1999, New Brunswick, Special Collections and University Archives, 2001.
Porter, Charles Orlando and Robert Jackson Alexander, The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America, New York: Macmillan, 1961.
Richards, Edward B., “Marxism and Marxist Movements in Latin America in Recent Soviet Historical Writing”, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 45, n° 4, 1965.
Romualdi, Serafino, Presidents and Peons: Recollections of a Labor Ambassador in Latin America, New York. Funk & Wagnalls, 1967.
Schoultz, Lars. “Review of ‘Latin American Political Parties’”, American Political Science Review, vol. 69, n° 3, 1975.
Skidmore, Thomas E., “Workers and Soldiers: Urban Labor Movements and Elite Responses in Twentieth-Century Latin America,” en Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850–1930, ed. Virginia Bernhard, Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1979.
Tannenbaum, Frank, The Mexican Agrarian Revolution, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1929.
Tannenbaum, Frank, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas, New York, Knopf, 1947.
Alexander, Robert J.,Arturo Alessandri: A Biography, Ann Arbor, Latin American Institute of Rutgers University and University Microflms International, 1977.
Alexander, Robert J., The Tragedy of Chile, Westport, Conn., Greenwood, 1978.
Alexander, Robert J.,Juan Domingo Perón: A History, Boulder, Westview, 1979.
Alexander, Robert J.. Rómulo Betancourt and the Transformation of Venezuela, New Brunswick, Transaction, 1982.
Alexander, Robert J., “Reflections on the Use of Interviews As Primary Sources”, The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, June 1987.
Alexander, Robert J., Venezuela’s Voice for Democracy: Conversations and Correspondence with Rómulo Betancourt, New York. Praeger, 1990.
Alexander, Robert J., Juscelino Kubitschek and the Development of Brazil, Athens, Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1991.
Alexander, Robert J., The ABC Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1992.
Alexander, Robert J., The Bolivarian Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with Presidents of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1994.
Alexander, Robert J., Presidents of Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and Hispaniola: Conversations and Correspondence, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1995.
Alexander, Robert J., Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Governors of the English-speaking Caribbean and Puerto Rico: Conversations and Correspondence, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1997.
Alexander, Robert J.,, Maoism in the Developed World, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 2001.
Alexander, Robert J., International Maoism in the Developing World, Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999.;
Alexander, Robert J., A History of Organized Labor in Brazil, Westport, Conn., Praeger, 2003).
Berger, Mark T., Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas, 1898–1990, Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1995.
Bergquist, Charles, Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia, Stanford, Stanford Univ. Press, 1986,
Delpar, Helen, “Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Mexicanist, 1914–1933”, en The Americas, vol. 45, n° 2, 1988, pp. 153–72.
Erickson, Kenneth Paul, Patrick Peppe y Hobart Spalding, “Research on the Urban Working Class and Organized Labor in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile: What Is Left to Be Done?”, en Latin American Research Review, vol. 9, n° 2, 1974.
French, John D., Robert Alexander: The Complete Bibliography of a Pioneering Latin Americanist, Miami, Center for Labor Research and Studies, Florida International Univ., 1991.
French, John D., The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflicts and Alliances in Modern São Paulo, Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992.
French, John D., Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture, Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Kohr, Leopold, “Review of ‘The Bolivian National Revolution’ by Robert J. Alexander”, Annals of the American Academy, n° 328, 1960,
Landsberger, Henry A., “The Labor Elite: Is It Revolutionary?”, en Elites in Latin America, ed. Seymour Martin
Lipset and Aldo Solari, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1967.
Lavretskii, I. R., “A Survey of the Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956–1958”, en Latin American History: Essays on Its Study and Teaching, 1898-1965, ed. Howard F. Cline, Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1967.
Mitchell, Christopher, The Legacy of Populism in Bolivia: From the MNR to Military Rule, New York, Praeger, 1977.
Morgan, Ted, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster, New York, Random House, 1999.
Kofas, Jon V., The Struggle for Legitimacy: Latin American Labor and the United States, 1930–1960, Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State Univ., 1992.
Pavilack, Jody, Modern Chile: Indexes of the Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection, 1946–90, Durham and Chapel Hill: Duke-UNC, 1999.
Pavilack, Jody y David Sartorius, Modern Cuba: Indexes of the Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection, Durham; Chapel Hill: Duke-UNC, 1999..
Pavilack, Jody, “‘Black Gold in the Red Zone’: Repression and Contention in Chilean Coal Mining Communities from the Popular Front to the Advent of the Cold War”, Tesis doctoral, Duke University,, 2003.
Perrone, Fernanda, Robert Jackson Alexander Papers, 1890 (1945)–1999, New Brunswick, Special Collections and University Archives, 2001.
Porter, Charles Orlando and Robert Jackson Alexander, The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America, New York: Macmillan, 1961.
Richards, Edward B., “Marxism and Marxist Movements in Latin America in Recent Soviet Historical Writing”, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 45, n° 4, 1965.
Romualdi, Serafino, Presidents and Peons: Recollections of a Labor Ambassador in Latin America, New York. Funk & Wagnalls, 1967.
Schoultz, Lars. “Review of ‘Latin American Political Parties’”, American Political Science Review, vol. 69, n° 3, 1975.
Skidmore, Thomas E., “Workers and Soldiers: Urban Labor Movements and Elite Responses in Twentieth-Century Latin America,” en Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850–1930, ed. Virginia Bernhard, Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1979.
Tannenbaum, Frank, The Mexican Agrarian Revolution, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1929.
Tannenbaum, Frank, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas, New York, Knopf, 1947.
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.