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Josep Maria Fradera

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Josep M. Fradera
Josep Maria Fradera en 2008.
Born1952 Edit this on Wikidata
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  • Department of Humanities of the Pompeu Fabra University (1996–) Edit this on Wikidata

Josep Maria Fradera i Barceló (born 1952) is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the Pompeu Fabra University. Specialised in the colonial system of the late Spanish Empire, he has also studied the history of Catalonia.

Biography

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Fradera was born in Mataró in 1952.[1] An anti-francoist activist in his youth and member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), Fradera began his college studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1971.[2] He earned a PhD from the UAB in 1983, reading a dissertation titled Crisi colonial i mercat interior, 1814-1837. Les bases comercials de la indústria catalana moderna and supervised by Josep Fontana.[2][3]

From 1987 to 1988, he worked as research assistant of John H. Elliott at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.[4]

He was appointed to a chair of Contemporary History at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in 1996.[5] He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and at the Harvard University's Center For European Studies. He is also a researcher for the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA).[6]

He writes in Spanish and Catalan.

Works

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  • — (1987). Indústria i mercat: les bases comercials de la indústria catalana moderna (1814-1845). Barcelona: Ed. Crítica.[7]
  • — (1992). Cultura nacional en una societat dividida. (Patriotisme i cultura a Catalunya (1838-1868). Barcelona: Curial.[8]
  • — (1996). Jaume Balmes: els fonaments racionals d'una política catòlica. Vic: Eumo Editorial.[9]
  • — (1999). Filipinas la colonia más peculiar. La Hacienda pública en la definición de la política colonial, 1762-1868. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.[10]
  • — (1999). Gobernar colonias. Barcelona: Editorial Península.[11][12]
  • — (2005). Colonias para después de un imperio.[13]
  • — (2009). La patria dels catalans. Barcelona: La Magrana.[14]
  • — (2015). La nación imperial. Derechos, representación y ciudadanía en los imperios de Gran Bretaña, Francia, España y Estados Unidos (1750-1918). Barcelona: Edhasa.[15]

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