Regina Grafe

Early modern Spain and the Spanish Atlantic, economic history

Office: Harris Hall #302
Phone: 847-491-7412
E-mail: grafenorthwestern.edu

Regina Grafe (PhD London School of Economics and Political Science 2001) is an economic historian of early modern Spain and the Atlantic World and the Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northwestern. She is the author of Entre el mundo ibérico y el Atlántico (Bilbao 2005) and Distant Tyranny. Markets, Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 (Princeton 2012) and currently writing a monograph (with M.A. Irigoin) on the political economy of Spanish imperial rule titled A Stakeholder Empire. Beyond Spanish and Spanish American history she has worked on the comparative history of commercial institutions, with a new project that looks at the role of diversity and competition in an emerging early modern European “market” for commercial institutions. Grafe has taught at Universidad Carlos III Madrid and the LSE. She was elected to a Prize Fellowship at Oxford’s Nuffield College (2003-6), was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton (2008/9) and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence (Jan-Mar 2012). Her research has also been supported by the EU’s Marie Curie Fellowship Programme, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Library Company of Philadelphia. She teaches courses on early modern Spanish history as well as economic history.

Curriculum Vitae

 

Distant Tyranny Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 By Regina Grafe Sample Chapter Table of Contents

Recent Articles 1. ‘A Stakeholder Empire: The political economy of Spanish imperial rule in America’ The Economic History Review (with M.A. Irigoin) (2012) 2. ‘The strange tale of the decline of Spanish Shipping’ in Unger, Richard Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850. (Brill Publishers) Leiden and Boston MA. (2011) 3. ‘The Rise and Fall of the Merchant Guilds: Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Premodern Europe’ Journal of Interdisciplinary History. XL, no 4, (2010) pp.477-511. (with O.Gelderblom) 4. "The S.R. Epstein Memorial Lecture 2008: Stuck in the Past or Looking Towards the Future? The Deep Historical Roots of Spanish Economic Regionalism" (2008) 5. "Bargaining for Absolutism. A Spanish Path to Empire and Nation Building" (with M.A. Irigoin). Hispanic American Historical Review, no. 2 (2008): 173-210

 

Datasets

Dataset for “The Rise and Fall of Merchant Guilds” JIH 2010 Appendix

Dataset for Distant Tyranny. Trade, Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 (Princeton 2012)