Background
Blaut, James Morris was born on October 20, 1927 in New York City. Son of Samuel Joseph and Theresa Ellen (Henschel) Blaut.
(Understanding the forces involved in the nationalist stru...)
Understanding the forces involved in the nationalist struggles in the modern world is the aim of this book. Blaut takes issue with theorists, non-Marxists and Marxists, alike- who conceive of nationalism either as some kind of autonomous force in society, or as representing only the interest of a new bourgeois class trying to take control of the state. Instead, he shows how national struggles have been waged by different classes in different epochs, both exploited and exploiting groups.
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Blaut, James Morris was born on October 20, 1927 in New York City. Son of Samuel Joseph and Theresa Ellen (Henschel) Blaut.
He attended the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. Next, from 1948 to 1949, he studied in the New School for Social Research, from 1949 to 1950 at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, and from 1950 at Louisiana State University.
He is known as one of the most notable critics of Eurocentrism. Blaut was one of the most widely read authors in the field of geography. After the end of the Korean War, he also served in the United States Army, and was involved in an incident which resulted in court-martial of his commander and the dismissal of the camp’s commandant.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1958, at which time he was already working at the Yale University.
In 1960 he moved to University of Puerto Rico, where he stayed till 1963. In 1964 he moved to the College of the Virgin Islands.
In 1971, told that his activities and ideas were too extreme for Clark, he moved back to the University of Puerto Rico, and finally to University of Illinois at Chicago. Blaut"s death in 2000 prevented him from finishing his trilogy of books criticizing Eurocentric theories of a "European miracle".
(lieutenant begins with The Colonizer’s Model of the World and is followed by the Eight Eurocentric Historians).
He was a member and activist of Henry A. Wallace’s Progressive Party. He supported a variety of activists" campaigns during the Vietnam War. He was also a supporter of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
(Understanding the forces involved in the nationalist stru...)
His studies focused on the agricultural microgeography (geographical activity of villagers), cultural ecology, theory of nationalism, philosophy of science, historiography and the relations between the First and the Third World. In 1967 he returned to the United States for a position at Clark University, where in 1969 he helped establish the Antipode Journal and the Union of Socialist Geographers. The Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG also issues a James Blaut Award and has a Memorial Lecture.
With United States Army, 1954-1956. Member Association American Geographers (distinguished scholar of year 1997), National Council Geography Education, American Anthropological Association.
Married América Sorrentini, April 2, 1964. 1 child, Gini.