Years active 1967- Political party Republican Party Spouse Lourdes Kuethe | Role Historian Name Allan Kuethe | |
Born February 1, 1940 (age 84) ( 1940-02-01 ) Waverly, Bremer County
Iowa, USA Alma mater University of Iowa
University of Florida Occupation Historian
Professor of Latin American studies at Texas Tech University Children John C. Kuethe
Jennifer K. Alameda
Allan R. Kuethe
Christian F. Kuethe Residence Lubbock, Texas, United States Books The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century: War and the Bourbon Reforms, 1713-1796 Education University of Iowa, University of Florida People also search for Kenneth J. Andrien, John Robert Fisher, Anthony McFarlane | ||
Allan James Kuethe (born February 1, 1940) is an American historian specializing in Latin American studies. He is a distinguished Paul Whitfield Horn professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, an honor named for the first president of Texas Tech. Kuethe is the first in the history department honored with a Horn professorship since Ernest Wallace, an authority on the history of Texas. Kuethe (pronounced ) is also a former chairperson of the Texas Tech history department.
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Background
Originally from Waverly in Bremer County in northeastern Iowa, Kuethe in 1962 obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa at Iowa City. He then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, where he received his Master of Arts in 1963 and his Ph.D. in 1967. Kuethe joined the Texas Tech faculty in 1967 and has taught both Latin America history and the history of western civilization. He has also instructed outreach and distance education courses. Kuethe also helped to establish the Texas Tech University Center in Seville in Seville, Spain.
Publications
Kuethe's published in 1978 a now classic work with the University of Florida Press at Gainesville, entitled Military Reform and Society in New Granada, 1773-1808, republished in 2013 by the American Council of Learned Societies. He argued that Bourbon Reforms opened upward mobility to people of mixed race through the military, using New Grenada's 1782 revolt as the case study. In 1986, Kuethe published Cuba, 1753-1815: Crown, Military, and Society. He took faculty leave in the 1983-1984 academic year to do research in Spain. He also conducted lengthy research in Colombia. He wrote the chapter "The Colonial Commercial Policy of Philip V and the Atlantic World" in the book Latin America and the Atlantic World.
Family
Kuethe is married to the former Lourdes Ramos, a Cuban refugee. She has helped him in the translation of his publications into Spanish. The couple has four children.