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Ana Crespo Solana
Training and Professional experience
She graduated in Philosophy and Arts (Geography and History), specialized in Modern History, at the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain (1992), where she also won an Extraordinary Graduate Award (1994). She undertook several doctorate courses: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1992-1993); Master Universitario en Historia Latinoamericana, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. La Rábida, Spain (1995). She obtained her PhD in Philosophy and Arts (Geography and History), specialized in Modern and Contemporary History, at the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain (1999), with a Cum Laude distinction.
She has worked as a research fellow, invited lecturer and associate professor at several universities and research centres, such as Universidad de Cádiz, (Junta de Andalucía, 1991-1993), Spain; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1993); Universiteit Leiden (IGEER), Holland (1994, 1995, 1996-1997, 1998, 2000, 2002), Institute Maritieme Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent, Belgium (2000), London School of Economics, London, UK (November 2001). She has been awarded grants and scholarships by various institutions: Fundación Caja Madrid, Centro de Formación de Historia Económica, Banco de España, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, (Spain); NUFFIC (Holland); DAAD (Germany); and Comunidad de Madrid (Spain). In 2000 she joined the CSIC as a research fellow, where, in 2003, she became a research scientist as part of the Ramón y Cajal Programme (CSIC-MEC), and participated in the “Grupo de Historia Marítima” that was coordinated by A. Guimerá. She is currently a member of the Caribbean and Atlantic World Comparative Studies Team (GECCMA) whithin the Instutue of History of the CSIC. She is the author of 5 books and over 30 essays and articles that have been published in scientific journals and as part of collective works both at national and international level. She has organized and participated as speaker in international congresses and conferences, and lectured, at numerous events in Spain, Holland, UK, Puerto Rico, Belgium, Germany, Finland and Sweden. She has also taken part in programmes of doctorate courses at various universities, such as Universidad Hispalense, Seville; Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville; Universidad de Alicante; Historisches Seminaar, Hamburg; and Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Research experience
She has carried out research work into the relations between Spain, The Low Countries and the Baltic in the XVIII century, especially in the fields of social and economic history. Her scientific output includes important, innovative studies of Flemish and Dutch merchant communities in the Atlantic World, in European port-cities and in the Caribbean and its surrounding areas. At present, she is studying in depth the comparative history of merchant communities in the Atlantic system as well as maritime commerce and traffic between Europe and America in the XVIII century. For over 15 years she has taken part in various national and international research projects on Spanish colonial trade, merchant elites and European expansion, at the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain) and Universiteit Leiden (Holland). She leads, together with Prof Jack Owens from the Idaho State University, an international Collaborative Research Project as part of the TECT Eurocores Programme (The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading), joining forces with several research centres in Europe, USA, India and Zimbawe. She is also the Director of a research project entitled ‘Nations and communities: comparative perspectives in Atlantic Europe (1680-1830)’.
Projects
Selected Publications
- Crespo Solana, A. El Comercio marítimo entre Cádiz y Amsterdam, 1713-1778, Madrid: Banco de España, 2000.
- Crespo Solana, A. Entre Cádiz y los Países Bajos: una comunidad mercantil en la ciudad de la Ilustración, Cádiz, Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Cátedra Adolfo de Castro, 2001.
- Crespo Solana, A. Herrero Sánchez, M. (coords.) La Monarquía y las 17 Provincias de los Países Bajos: una revisión historiográfica (siglos XVI-XVIII)”. 2 vols. Córdoba, Madrid, 2002.
- Crespo Solana, A. América desde otra frontera. La Guayana Holandesa (Surinam). 1680-1778, CSIC, Madrid, 2006.
- Crespo Solana, A "La ruta del Levante: Cádiz en el tráfico marítimo neerlandés con sus mercados mediterráneos y orientales en los siglos XVII y XVIII", en Economía Marítima, Cádiz: Ayuntamiento de San Fernando, 1998, pp. 145-154.
- Crespo Solana, A. “Las reformas de comercio gaditano a comienzos del siglo XVIII en el contexto europeo de las políticas navales y comerciales”, Acosta Rodríguez, A. González Rodríguez, A. & Vila Vilar, E. (coords.) La Casa de la Contratación y la navegación entre España y las Indias, Univ de Sevilla, CSIC-EEHA, Fundación El Monte 2003: pp. 183-203.
- Crespo Solana, A. “Dutch Trade with the Spanish West Indies and the Flemish Community in Cadiz in the Eighteenth Century”. XXIV Encontro das Aphes (Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa).
- Crespo Solana, A. “Reflections on Monopolies and Free trade at the end of the eighteenth century: A Tobacco Trading Company between Puerto Rico and Amsterdam in 1784”, Itinerario. Journal for Overseas History, 29/1 2005.
- Crespo Solana, A. “Guillermo III de Orange y la Sucesión de la Monarquía Hispánica (1680-1702)” Bernardo Ares, J.M (coord.) La Sucesión de la Monarquía Hispánica. Vol, I. Córdoba, 2006.
- Crespo Solana, A. “Flandes y la expansión mercantil europea: Naturaleza de una red atlántica (siglos XV-XIX)”, Paz, M. de (coord.) Flandes y el Atlántico.
- Crespo Solana, A.“Manifestaciones culturales y actitudes religiosas ante las catástrofes naturales en la España del Antiguo Régimen. El Maremoto de 1755 en Cádiz”, Stols, Eddy (Ed.) Naturalia, Mirabilia & Monstrosa en el mundo iberico, siglos XVI XIX, Monografías Avisos de Flandes, vol. 12, Leuven University Press, 2006.
- Crespo Solana, A. “Dutch Merchant Networks and the trade with the Hispanic Port Cities in the Atlantic: (1648-1778)”, en Hausberger, B. and Ibarra, A. (eds.), "Imperial Networks and Global Bussines in Iberian
World, XVth to XVIIIth centuries: Merchants, Bankers and Corporations /
Redes imperiales y negocios globales en el mundo ibérico, siglos XV al XVIII: comerciantes, financieros y corporaciones", México, Francfort
2006.
- Crespo Solana, A. Mercaderes Atlánticos. Redes del comercio flamenco y holandés entre Europa y el Caribe, Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba y CajaSur, 2009.
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