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Position:
Tenured
Scientist
Speciality:
History of America
Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, CSIC
Alfonso XII, 16
41002, Sevilla
Spain
Tel: +0034 954 501 120
Fax: +0034 954 500 954
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Antonio Santamaría García
Training and Professional experience
He graduated in Geography and History (1989) and obtained his PhD (1995) at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain (I. U. Ortega y Gasset). He was awarded University Specialization Diplomas in ‘Development process and disadvantages’ (CEPAL-AECI, 1989), ‘Economy for Historians’ (FSA, 1990), ‘History of Cuba’ (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, 1991) and ‘Statistics and Quantitative Research Techniques’ (CSIC, 1993). he has stayed as invited lecturer and/or researcher at the Univesitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain, and at the Universidad de La Habana (on five occasions between 1991 and 2003). He was awarded a grant by the FPI of the Universidad Complutense at the I. U. Ortega y Gasset. He was AEU lecturer at the Department of Economics of the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), and Visiting Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, UK (Overseas Postdoctoral Grant). Since 1989 he has worked at the Institute of History (CSIC) as a research scholar.
He is currently a member of the Comparative Studies Team on Caribbean and Atlantic World (GECCMA) as well as the Caribbean Studies Network and the Caribbean Work Group within the AHILA framework.
He has written a number of monographs, essays and book chapters. He is currently a Tenured Scientist at the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, CSIC (Seville).
Research experience
His research work has been carried out into the fields of Economic History, Business History, Technology and Transportation History, Social History and Historiography in Spain and Latin America, especially regarding the Caribbean area. His most relevant contributions are focused on sugar industry in Cuba, railways in Latin America, Latin American Historiography and Economic History in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Latin America.
Projects
He has been involved in 9 nationally and internationally funded projects carried out at the CSIC and in all centres where he worked. Funding agencies include the Spanish Railway Foundation, the Inter-American Bank of Development and the IMSERSO (Spain). A few examples are:
Selected Publications
He has written 4 books, edited and coordinated a further 4 books and journal monographs, as well as over 70 articles and book chapters featured in journals and collective works published both in Spain and abroad. Among them, it is worth mentioning the following:
- Sin azúcar no hay país. La industria azucarera y la economía cubana (1919-1939). Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, EEH-CSIC y Diputación de Sevilla, 2002.
- La América española (1763-1898). Economía. Madrid: Síntesis, 2002 (con B. Lavalle y C. Naranjo).
- Economía y colonia. La economía cubana y la relación con España, 1765-1902. Madrid: CSIC, 2004 (can A. García Álvarez).
- Historia económica y social de Puerto Rico (1750-1902). Bibliografía y fuentes publicadas (1745-2002) y balance. Madrid: Fundación Mapfre Tavera, 2005.
- La industria azucarera en América. Monográfico de Revista de Indias (Madrid: CSIC), 233 (2005) [coordinador con A. García Álvarez].
- Las economías contemporáneas de América Latina en perspectiva histórica. Monográfico de Debate y Perspectivas (Madrid: Fundación Mapfre Tavera), 5 (2005) [coordinador].
- Justo G. Cantero: Los ingenios. Colección de visitas a los principales ingenios de azúcar de la isla de Cuba. Aranjuez: Doce Calles, CEHOPU, CSIC y Mapfre Tavera, 2005 [editor con L. M. García Mora].
- La economía cubana y la relación colonial en el último tercio del siglo XIX. Madrid: CSIC, 2006 (en prensa) [editor, junto con C. Naranjo].
- Más allá del azúcar. Política, diversificación y prácticas económicas en Cuba, 1878-1930. Aranjuez: Doce Calles, 2009 (editor, together with C. Naranjo).
- “A propósito de la industria azucarera en Cuba, 1860-1880”. En M. Guicharnaud-Tollis (ed.): Le sucre dans l'espace caraïbe hispanophone aux xixe et xxe siècles. París: L'Harmattan, 1999, pp. 71-94.
- “Alteration, Crisis and Adjustment in the Cuban Export Economy, 1898-1939”. En E. Cárdenas et al. (eds.): The Export Age: the Latin American Economy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Basingtoke: Palgave Press & St. Antony's College Series, pp. 299-322.
- “Las cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1690-2005”. En C. Yáñez et al.(eds.): Análisis de series temporales de largo plazo y los problemas del desarrollo latinoamericano. Barcelona (en prensa).
- “El '98 en América.
- “Precios y salarios reales en Cuba, 1872-1914”. Revista de Historia Económica (Madrid), XIX/2 (2000), pp. 339-376.
- “Temas y controversias del debate histórico internacional reciente en torno a la industria azucarera”. América Latina en la Historia Económica(México), 25 (2006), pp. 5-42.
- “Açúcar nas Américas” in A rapadura e o fusca. Cana, cultura, sociedade. Salvador de Bahia (Brasil), Goethe-Institut (2010)
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