Vilassar de Dalt, Catalonia, Spain
Especialidades: Arqueología marítima, historia naval, historia de las mentalidades
THE MOBILISATION OF MILITARY RESOURCES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SPAIN'S IMPERIAL MONARCHY IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. The project aims to analyse the relation between the mobilisation of resources for war, the state's main concern at this time, and the construction of empire-wide authoritativeness (in Spain, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia). This will be done in two different political contexts, Hapsburgs and Bourbons, with the idea of working out which policies were rethought and revamped between the two dynasties and which were maintained and re-implemented. The overriding objective of these warfare resource mobilisation policies was to establish a framework of sovereignty, security and legality, the sole guarantees of state development at this time, as well as the development of their societies and economies. The project sets out to analyse how the state tackled the overriding need of obtaining, mobilising and employing on a worldwide scale the host of defence resources it needed, how efficient it was at doing so and what the positive and negative consequences were for the territories, institutions and the public and private agents that participated, benefited or suffered therefrom and for the state itself. The resource mobilising methods used, the fleet-footedness with which they were changed and the effectiveness achieved give us a new and original take on the executive reality of Spain's imperial monarchy, its territorial integration and development. The proposed coordinated project and the established working method ensure an efficient academic cooperation schema and the possibility of obtaining tangible, groundbreaking results of a high historiographic impact. http://www.unav.edu/web/facultad-de-ciencias-economicas-y-empresariales/csg-red-imperial/members
Proyecto de investigación histórica coordinado por Iván Valdés-Bubnov (PAPIIT IN404115, 2016-2017), Participan: Ivan Valdez-Bubnov, Johanna Von Granfenstein, Sergio Solbes, Ernest Sánchez Santiró, Rafa Torres, Manuel Díaz Ordóñez, María Baudot, Agustín Guimerá, Antonio Rodriguez, Agustín González Enciso, José Manuel Serrano, Rafal Reichert y Vera Moya Sordo.