Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Conference 2015 (Baltimore)

Together with my colleague Prof. Erin Rowe, I am hosting the 2015 ASPHS Annual Meeting at Johns Hopkins in March 2015. The exact dates are March 19-22. Further information (the CFP, Hotel Information etc.) may be found on the ASPHS site.

I hope to see you in Baltimore!

Publication of History of European Ideas Special Issue

I am delighted to announce the publication of the special issue of History of European Ideas on "Liberalism in the Early Nineteenth-century Iberian World". 

It was a honor to serve as the editor of this issue, which included the work of some of my favorite historians!

ToC 

Special Issue of History of European Ideas: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rhei20#.U4y77ErcA2w

 

Gabriel Paquette, ‘Introduction: Liberalism in the Early Nineteenth-century Iberian World’.

Javier Fernández Sebástian, ‘A Distorting Mirror: The Sixteenth Century in the Historical Imagination of the First Hispanic Liberals’.

Brian R. Hamnett, ‘The Reception of Romanticism in Italy and Spain: Parallels and Contrasts’.

Nuno G. Monteiro, ‘Mouzinho da Silveira and the political culture of Portuguese liberalism 1820-1832’.

Gregorio Alonso, ‘“A great people struggling for their liberties”: Spain and the Mediterranean in the eyes of the Benthamites’.

Proyectos Ilustrados: La Herencia Historiográfica in 20/10

I am pleased to announce that my essay has been published in the Mexican series 20/10

It is entitled "Proyectos Ilustrados: La Herencia Historiográfica" and was published in volume 2 (December 2013).

My review of Stites, The Four Horsemen, in the TLS (May 9, 2014)

My review of Richard Stites' brilliant, posthumously published The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe (Oxford UP, 2014) is in the May 9 issue of the Times Literary Supplement.

Imperial Portugal in Paperback!

I am delighted to report that Imperial Portugal is now available as a paperback! Here is the Amazon link !

Atlantic Crossings Series

I am pleased to announce that I am now an area advisory editor for the series "Atlantic Crossings", published by the University of Alabama Press. A link to the series may be found here

Please consider submitting a proposal. We hope to feature monographs and edited volumes related to the South Atlantic as well as the North Atlantic in the series.