Benjamín Nahum (2 February 1937) is a Uruguayan historian, professor, and researcher. He is professor of

Economic History Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and i ...

at the

University of the Republic The University of the Republic ( es, Universidad de la República, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America an ...

. In 1979 he was awarded the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. His daughter was television journalist and writer Ana Nahum.

Works

*''Escritos de Historia Económica y Documental'' (13 vol.) *''Manual de Historia del Uruguay (1830–1990)'' *''Series de documentos de diplomáticos extranjeros'' (27 vol.) *''Bases económicas de la Revolución Artiguista'' (1964, with José Pedro Barrán) *''Historia social de las revoluciones de 1897 y 1904'' (1967, with José Pedro Barrán)) *''Historia Rural del Uruguay Moderno'', 7 vols. (1967–1978, with José Pedro Barrán) *''Batlle, los estancieros y el Imperio Británico'', 8 vols. (1979–1987, with José Pedro Barrán) *"Historia Uruguaya", Ediciones de la Banda Oriental: **vol. 6: ''La época batllista, 1905–1929'' (1975) **editor of vol. 7: ''Crisis política y recuperación económica, 1930–1958'' (1988) **editor of vol. 8: ''El fin del Uruguay liberal, 1959–1973'', (1990) *''La evolución de la deuda externa del Uruguay: 1875–1939'' (1995) *''La crisis de 1890'' (1998) *''Breve historia del Uruguay independiente'' (1999) *Colección ''El Uruguay del siglo XX'' (recopilador y editor) (2001)

References

1937 births 20th-century Uruguayan historians Uruguayan Jews University of the Republic (Uruguay) faculty Jewish historians Living people Recipients of the Delmira Agustini Medal {{Uruguay-historian-stub