Biography

Professor of Early Modern History

Regina Grafe (PhD LSE 2001) specialises in global economic and social history. Her fields of interest include the political economy of state and empire formation as well as the role of economic institutions in the Spanish Empire either side of the Atlantic. Her project "How pan-European cooperation beat competition in the Atlantic" challenges national narratives that portrayed the early modern European push for extra-European colonial hegemony as a result of intra-European competition. A second project "Colonial legacies, invisible institutions, and financial markets in Latin America (and beyond)" looks at the development of the sui generis financial sector in the Iberian colonies before 1800.

Fields of expertise

• Europe in the world
• Global history
• 16th century (Sixteenth century)
• Economic history
• Capitalism
• 18th century (Eighteenth century)
• Early modern history
• 17th century (Seventeenth century)
• Empires
• Colonialism
• Decolonisation
• Mediterranean
• Latin America
• Spanish Empire
• Africa

Recent research output

• GRAFE, Regina (2022), La lección de las monjas : el sector crediticio colonial, la historia de género y una revolución historiográfica inacabada, Working Paper
• GRAFE, Regina (2021), Latin America : 1700–1870, Contribution to book
• GRAFE, Regina (2020), An empire of debts? : the Spanish Empire and its colonial realm, Contribution to book
• GRAFE, Regina (2019), Midway Gardens restaurant, Chicago, United States of America, opened in 1914, demolished in 1929, Contribution to book
• GRAFE, Regina; PEDREIRA, Jorge M. (2019), New imperial economies, Contribution to book
• GRAFE, Regina; PRAK, Maarten (2019), Families, firms and polities : pre-modern institution, economic growth and the great divergence, Contribution to book

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