Jay Kinsbruner
Jay Kinsbruner was a professor and professor emeritus of history at Queens College, City University of New York.
Kinsbruner worked initially on early national Chile, but subsequently studied Latin American independence processes with a comparative approach. His books include:
- Diego Portales: Interpretative Essays on the Man and Times
- Bernardo O'Higgins
- The Spanish-American Independence Movement
- Chile: A Historical Interpretation
- Independence in Spanish America: Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment
- Petty Capitalism in Spanish America: The Pulperos of Puebla, Mexico City, Caracas, and Buenos Aires
- Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
- The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism