Frank R. Safford

19th-century Latin America

Office: 21 Harris
Phone: 847-491-7444
E-mail: f-saffordnorthwestern.edu

Frank R. Safford (PhD Columbia, 1965), is an historian of Latin America, whose research in economic and political history deals with Colombia throughout its history but also spans Spanish America as a whole in the nineteenth century. Among the topics he has treated are patterns in politics, entrepreneurship and commerce, and constraints to economic development. Among his publications are: The Ideal of the Practical: Colombia's Struggle to Form a Technical Elite (Austin, 1976); Aspectos del siglo xix en Colombia (Medellín, 1977); "Politics, Ideology and Society in Post-Independence Spanish America," Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. III (1985); Agrarian Structure and Political Power: Landlord & Peasant in the Making of Latin America, with Evelyne Huber (Pittsburgh, 1995); and Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society, with Marco Palacios (New York, Oxford, 2002). He currently serves as Director of Northwestern's undergraduate major in International Studies.

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