Frank Tannenbaum - Literary works

Historian, born in Brod, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He emigrated to the USA in 1905, two years later enrolling in night classes at the radical Ferrer School. As a young member of the Industrial Workers of the World, or ‘Wobblies’, he worked as a labour activist and was briefly imprisoned. He later earned degrees at Columbia College and the Brookings Institution. During his long career as a Latin-American historian at Columbia University (1935–61), he originated (1945) and for 25 years directed Columbia's famous University Seminar Programme. His interests and contributions were unusually diverse, ranging from prison reform to race relations. His Crime and the Community (1938) became a standard text, and his most famous book, Slave and Citizen (1947), was a pioneering work on the historiography of American slavery. Long interested in Mexican history, particularly the revolution, he came to be regarded as the dean of North American Mexicanists. Among his awards was the Mexican government's National Order of the Aguila Azteca.

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Frank Tannenbaum (1893, Austria - 1969, New York) was an Austrian-American sociologist and historian.

Literary works

The Mexican agrarian revolution, 1930 Slave and citizen, 1947 Mexico: the struggle for peace and bread, 1950 A philosophy of labor, 1951 Ten Keys to Latin America, 1962