Nils Jacobsen

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Nils Peter Jacobsen is an American historian specializing in the history of Peru. He is an associate professor of History and Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [1] He is the author of Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930 and Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950.

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Jacobsen received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. [2] His dissertation was entitled "Landtenure and Society in the Peruvian Altiplano: Azangaro Province, 1770-1920".

He is an associate professor of History and Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [1] He also served as a Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Jacobsen's work has focused on the area of comparative rural history, the general history of the Andes region, as well as the social and economic history of Peru. He is the author of Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930 and Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950.

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  1. 1 2 "Nils Jacobsen profile". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign website. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  2. "Nils Jacobsen Center for Latin American Studies profile" . Retrieved 8 December 2013.