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Josep M. Fradera

Historian, specialized in peninsular nationalisms, colonies and empires in the world.

Josep M. Fradera is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the UPF. He received his BA and PhD from the UAB and has done research and teaching stays at Princeton IAS and at the universities of Princeton, Chicago, NYU and Harvard. He has a long international reputation in his field with more than a dozen books published, including Indústria i mercat. Les bases comercials de la indústria catalana moderna (Crítica, 1987); Cultura nacional en una societat dividida; Patriotisme i cultura a Catalunya (1838-1868) (Curial, 1992); Jaume Balmes. Els fonaments racionals d'una política catòlica (Eumo, 1996); Gobernar colonias (Península, 1999), Colonias para después de un imperio (Bellaterra, 2005); La pàtria dels catalans. Història, política, cultura (La Magrana, 2009); La nación imperial. Derechos, representación y ciudadanía en los imperios de Gran Bretaña, Francia, España y los Estados Unidos (Edhasa, 2015), translated into English in 2018; and Antes del antiimperialismo. Genealogy and limits of a humanitarian tradition (2022), Anagrama Essay Prize 2022.

Update: 15 March 2024

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Publications

Notícia nova de Catalunya

Consideracions crítiques sobre la historiografía catalana als cinquanta anys de notícia de Catalunya de Jaume Vicens i Vives

Has participated in

Mauricio Tenorio and Josep M. Fradera

The Ruins of Empires

Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, Nationalism – Three Roads to Modernity?

Lecture by Anthony Pagden

Empires from a Worldwide Historical Perspective

Wealth as Frontier: the Cultural and Global Guidelines of Economic Development

Lecture by David S. Landes