Owen Lattimore

Owen Lattimore (født 29. juli 1900 i Washington, DC i USA, død 31. mai 1989 i Providence i Rhode Island i USA) var en amerikansk sinolog og mongolog som på 1950-tallet ble anklaget for å være kommunistisk agent i USA. 
Owen Lattimore vokste opp i Tianjin i Kina. Fra 1926 ble han opptatt av sin forskning og forfatterskap, og gjennomførte forskningsreiser i Mongolia, Xinjiang og Mandsjuria. Hans innflytelsesrike verker Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict (1932) og The Mongols of Manchuria (1934) ble til i denne perioden.
Han underviste ved Johns Hopkins University i Baltimore 1938 til 1963. 
I 1950 ble han av senator Joseph McCarthy beskyldt for å være Sovjetunionens fremste spion i USA, men en senere granskning renvasket ham for anklagen. Det skulle imidlertid gå helt til 1955 før alle anklager mot ham var avvist.
Årene 1963–70 underviste han i kinesiske studier ved Leeds University i England. 
Blant hans senere bøker kan nevnes America and Asia (1943), The Situation in Asia (1949), Pivot of Asia (1950), Ordeal by Slander (1950), Studies in Asian Frontier History (1962) og Silks, Spices and Empire (1968).


== Verker ==
The Desert Road to Turkestan. 1929
High Tartary. 1930
Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict. Macmillan. 1932
The Mongols of Manchuria. 1934
Inner Asian Frontiers of China. 1940
Mongol Journeys. 1941
America and Asia. 1943
Solution in Asia. 1945
The Situation in Asia. 1949
Pivot of Asia. 1950
Ordeal by Slander. 1950
Nationalism and revolution in Mongolia. 1955
Nomads and Commissars. 1962
Studies in Frontier History. OUP. 1962


== Referanser ==


== Litteratur ==
David Buck, "Owen Lattimore," in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, ed., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 248-250.
James Cotton, Asian Frontier Nationalism: Owen Lattimore and the American Policy Debate (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1989). ISBN 0-391-03651-3.
M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe Mccarthy and His Fight against America's Enemies (New York: Crown Forum, 2007), esp Ch 29, "Owen Lattimore."
Fried, Richard Nightmare In Red : the McCarthy Era in Perspective, New York ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1990 ISBN 0-19-504360-X.
John T. Flynn, The Lattimore Story (New York,: Devin-Adair, 1953).
Klingaman., William The Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era, New York : Facts on File, 1996 ISBN 0-8160-3097-9.
Newman, Robert P. (1992). Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07388-6. 
Oshinsky, David A Conspiracy So Immense : the World of Joe McCarthy, New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1983 ISBN 0-02-923490-5.
Rowe, William T. "Owen, Lattimore, Asia, and Comparative History." Journal of Asian Studies 66, no. 3 (2007): 759-86.
Schrecker, Ellen No Ivory Tower : McCarthyism and the Universities, New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 ISBN 0-19-503557-7.
Schrecker, Ellen Many Are The Crimes : McCarthyism In America, Boston ; London : Little, Brown, 1998 ISBN 0-316-77470-7.


== Manganettsted ==
FBI reports from the espionage investigation of Lattimore 5161 pages
United States vs. Lattimore
Interview of Owen Lattimore by Caroline Humphrey 21st May 1983 (film)
American Center for Mongolian Studies Library. Brief biography of Lattimore, with links to books by or about him and relevant websites.