Imperial regulation, commercial practices, and the pan-European genesis of the trade in enslaved Africans to Spanish America
Thursday 30 January 2020 (Week 2), 11.15am
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
Regina Grafe is Professor of Early Modern History and Head of the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute. A world-leading scholar of the early modern history of the Hispanic world, with a special interest in global economic and social history, she has written widely on the history of state- and empire-building, colonial governance, and private and public commercial institutions and legal norms. Her publications include Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 (2012).
