Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Instituto de Historia,
Centro de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales-CSIC
Calle Albasanz, 26-28
28037 Madrid
Spain
tel: 34 91 4290626
email: mlucenag@ih.csic.es
Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Current Hispanic Baroque Research
General Research Interests
Recent Publications
Manuel Lucena Giraldo studies the History of the Americas and is a Research Fellow in the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. He has held visiting professorships in Venezuela, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Professor Lucena Giraldo is a regular contributor to the cultural supplement of the Spanish newpaper ABC, www.abc.es/abcd
Current Hispanic Baroque Research:
Politics in the Baroque city: The city in Spanish America from the end of the 16th Century was the center of a new political system, that of a Baroque body extended in a global empire. I will study the existence of a network of cities shaping this empire and linked by a symbolic character, that of a metropolis founded on biblical images. On the other hand, I will try to compare the ideas of time and space in this Baroque metropolis with that of the "Enlighthtened" cities.
General Research Interests:
Baroque vs. Enlightenment, Atlantic Revolutions, Frontiers in Spanish and Portuguese America, Bourbon Reforms
Recent Publications:
His publications include Tropical Laboratory. The Boundary Expedition to the Orinoco,1750-1767 (1993), Premonitions of the Spanish American Independence (2003), and work as contributing editor to The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794. The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina, eds. A. David, F. Fernández-Armesto, C. Novi y G. Williams (2001-2004). His latest book, translated as On the four winds. Cities in Hispanic America came out in 2006.
