Claudio Véliz is a prominent historian, sociologist and author from Chile, who has held numerous academic posts in various institutions of higher learning including La Trobe University (Australia), Harvard and Boston University. He completed a Bachelors of Science degree in the University of Florida and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics.

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  • Claudio Véliz is a prominent historian, sociologist and author from Chile, who has held numerous academic posts in various institutions of higher learning including La Trobe University (Australia), Harvard and Boston University. He completed a Bachelors of Science degree in the University of Florida and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. Véliz is an anglophile and has written extensively on the achievements of countries that started out as colonies of the British Empire. In his book The Gothic Fox Véliz points to factors such as the Spanish counter-reformation traditions and culture as an inhibitor of social innovation and economic development in Latin America in contrast to the successful development of British North America. Véliz has also been a major critic of anti-colonialists historians such Manning Clark - a principal Australian historian. Véliz considers Clark’s historical analysis as politically motivated and lacking an objective appreciation of the extension of Great Britain’s civilization into the subcontinent.
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  • Claudio Véliz is a prominent historian, sociologist and author from Chile, who has held numerous academic posts in various institutions of higher learning including La Trobe University (Australia), Harvard and Boston University. He completed a Bachelors of Science degree in the University of Florida and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics.
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