![]() ![]() Powell died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara on September 17, 1987. Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting Relations with the Hispanic World (1971) is about the relations between the United States and Spain and Latin America. His research focused on the theme of the Spanish borderlands between Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon America and the earliest colonial history of the American Southwest.Īmong his several influential books are Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600 (1952) and Mexico's Miguel Caldera: The Taming of America's First Frontier, 1548-1594 (1977). Powell retired and became Professor Emeritus in 1981. Warren Hollister, Joachim Remak, Leonard Marsak, Frank J. ![]() In 1947 he was hired by the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he taught in a growing department, soon joined by Wilbur R. ![]() In 1943 he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1944 at Northwestern University. He undertook graduate studies at Berkeley, taking Hispanic studies with Herbert I. He was born in Chino, California, attended Occidental College and transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his B.A. Philip Wayne Powell (1913–1987) was an American historian specializing in the Spanish colonial history of the American Southwest. ![]()
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