Desmond Christopher Martin Platt (11 November 1934 – 15 August 1989), known as Christopher Platt or D. C. M. Platt, was a British historian and academic specialising in

Latin America Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr ...

. Having taught at the

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, the

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, and

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, he was Professor of the History of Latin America at the

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and a

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St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politic ...

from 1972 until his death.

Selected works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Platt, Christopher 1934 births 1989 deaths 20th-century British historians Historians of Latin America Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Exeter Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford