Jay Kinsbruner (1939–2007)^[1][2] was a professor and professor emeritus of history at Queens College, City University of New York.

Kinsbruner worked initially on early national Chile, but subsequently studied Latin American independence processes with a comparative approach. His books include:

• Diego Portales: Interpretative Essays on the Man and Times (Martinus Nijhoff, 1967)^[3]
• Bernardo O'Higgins (Twayne Publishers, 1968)^[4]
• The Spanish-American Independence Movement (Dryden Press 1973)^[5]
• Chile: A Historical Interpretation (Harper & Row, 1974)^[6]
• Independence in Spanish America: Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment (University of New Mexico Press, 1994)^[7]
• Petty Capitalism in Spanish America: The Pulperos of Puebla, Mexico City, Caracas, and Buenos Aires (Westview Press, 1987)^[8]
• Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 1996)^[9]
• The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism (University of Texas Press, 2005)^[10]

He also edited the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, with over 3,000 articles.