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Regina Grafe
Early modern Spain and the Spanish Atlantic, economic history
Office: 1800 Sherman #504
Phone: 847-491-7412
E-mail: grafe
northwestern.edu
Regina Grafe (PhD London School of Economics and Political Science 2001) is an economic historian of early modern Spain. Her 2005 book, Entre el Mundo Ibérico y el Atlántico, traced the transformation of northern Spain in the wake of the region’s integration into the English North Atlantic in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Recent publications include "Bargaining for Absolutism. A Spanish Path to Empire and Nation Building," in Hispanic American Historical Review (2) 2008 (with A.Irigoin). Currently, she is working on a book project titled "Distant Tyranny. Trade, Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1820" that seeks to unravel the sources of peninsular Spain’s painfully slow economic, political and social integration between the late 17th and the early 19th Centuries, and on a second co-authored study of the political economy of Spanish imperial rule. Grafe was elected to a Prize Fellowship at Oxford’s Nuffield College 2003-6 and has enjoyed support from the European Union’s Marie Curie Fellowship Programme, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Library Company Philadelphia and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for Assistant Professors who are Members of the Institute for Advanced Studies Princeton (2008/9). She teaches courses on early modern Spanish history as well as economic history.
Recent Papers
1. "The Rise, Persistence and Decline of Merchant Guilds. Re-Thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Pre-Modern Europe" (with O.Gelderblom) mimeo (2009).
Appendix to “The Rise, Persistence and Decline ….”
3. "A Stakeholder Empire: The Political Economy of Spanish Imperial Rule in America" (with M.A. Irigoin). London School of Economics Global Economic History Working Paper 111 (2008).
4. "Bargaining for Absolutism. A Spanish Path to Empire and Nation Building" (with M.A. Irigoin). Hispanic American Historical Review, no. 2 (2008): 173-210.
5. "Response to Carlos Marichal and William Summerhill" (with M.A. Irigoin). Hispanic American Historical Review, no. 2 (2008): 235-245.
6. "The Spanish Empire and Its Legacy: Fiscal Re-Distribution and Political Conflict in Colonial and Post-Colonial Spanish America" (with M.A. Irigoin). Journal of Global History 1, no. 2 (2006): 241-267.
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