Borah - Latin American History
The Borah Collection focuses on the history and civilization of Latin America and was donated to the Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture
Catalog code CO | Sourasky Library, basement floor | Collection Coordinator: Eliya Amsalem
The collection, based on Prof. Woodrow's personal library, includes more than 7,600 titles: books, numerous periodicals, and hundreds of documents, mainly in the fields of history, culture, and civilization of Latin America, focusing on Colonial Spanish America and the history and culture of Mexico.
On Prof. Woodrow Wilson Borah
Prof. Borah studied Latin American History at the University of California, Berkeley. He became a leading scholar in the field of Colonial Latin America, and was known for his innovative research on the historical demography of Colonial Mexico. His close association, for a period of about twenty years, with his colleague, Berkeley physiologist, Sherburne B. Cook, yielded an ambitious reconstruction of the demographic history of Central Mexico of the pre- and post-conquest era.
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