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Dr Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso (Mexico City, 1980) is a political and social historian of early modern Spanish America and the broader Spanish world. While reading for his first degree, in Political Science and International Relations at CIDE in Mexico City, he developed an interest in the history of Latin America’s early nineteenth-century political though and constitutionalism. This eventually led him to shift his focus towards the political practices and traditions of the early modern Spanish world, initially as a prerequisite for understanding the lenses through which Independence-era Latin Americans read north-Atlantic political theory, and later on its own merit. His doctoral work at the University of Warwick (PhD in History 2011) explored the changing political culture of the early eighteenth century at the heart of the Spanish Monarchy through an analysis of the reform of the system of viceregal rule across the Spanish world. His first monograph, The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016; Open Access), explores the Trans-Atlantic dynamics behind the most salient reform introduced by the early bourbons in Spanish America. The book stresses the importance of thinking reform in the context of the changing balance of power in Spain, the geopolitical situation at the time and the hierarchical and asymmetrical nature of interactions across the empire.
Frank was the PI in the AHRC-funded project, Trajectories of Reform in the Spanish World: Careering, Networks and Empire under the Early Bourbons (1700-1759). The project explored how the experience of staggered mobility across different parts of the Spanish world contributed to empire building, the development of the new ‘professional’ administrative personnel of the Spanish monarchy under the early Bourbons, and the evolution of attitudes and ideas about the structure of the empire.
With Enrique Florescano, Frank is co-author of Atlas Histórico de México (Mexico City: Aguilar, 2008); he co-edited Early Bourbon Spanish America: Politics and Society in a Forgotten Era (1700-1759) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013) with Ainara Vázquez Varela, and Élites, representación y redes atlánticas en la Hispanoamérica moderna (Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán, 2017), also with Ainara Vázquez and Silvia Espelt-Bombín. With Pablo Hernández Sau, he co-edited '"Ongoing" Mobilities in the Early-Modern Spanish World', a special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (2022), and 'La movilidad escalonada en el mundo hispano de la edad moderna', a sepecial section of Magallánica. Revista de Historia Moderna (2023).
Before joining SPLAS at Manchester in 2013, Frank taught Latin American history at the University of Warwick, in the UK, and at CIDE and El Colegio de Michoacán, in Mexico.
Since 2022 Frank is co-editor of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies.
Dr. Eissa-Barroso's research and teaching interests revolve around the political, social and military history of Spanish America and the wider Hispanic World, especially during the early modern period. His work has three main areas of focus.
1) The study of policy making, court politics and political culture, local governance, social, familial and patron-client networks, and the various roles played by military officers in administering, defending and binding together the Spanish Empire. Frank's work in this area has focused primarily on the first half of the eighteenth century during the reigns of Philip V, first Bourbon king of Spain (1701-1724, 1724-1746).
2) Mobility and the study of lives and careers which spanned the Hispanic World. In particular, Frank is interested in the phenomenon of 'staggered mobility' and how non-linear, multi-directional trajectories were key to the construction and articulation of the Early-Modern Hispanic Atlantic.
3) Disability History and Critical (Dis)ability Studies with a particular focus on the history of physical impairment and disability in the Early-Modern Hispanic World.
Frank particularly welcomes enquiries from students interested in working on the social, political, and/or military history, broadly defined, of Early-Modern Latin America, Spain and the Hispanic World.
Topics recently supervised:
Guest appearence in You're dead to Me: Simón Bolívar. BBC Radio 4, 2024.
Eissa-Barroso, Francisco A. 'Las fuerzas defensivas virreinales'. Desperta Ferro. Historia Moderna, 48 (Oct. 2020): 26-30.
Eissa-Barroso, Frank. 'The "Spanish" Conquest of Mexico: Five Hundred Years On". Modern History Review, 22:3 (Feb. 2020): 2-6.
‘Expert’ appearance in Mystery Files: Zorro. Dir. Marc Tiley. Parthenon Entertainment, 2011. [Broadcasted internationally on the National Geographic Channel]
Florescano, Enrique and Francisco Eissa. Atlas histórico de México [Historical Atlas of Mexico]. Mexico City: Aguilar, 2008.
(On Research Leave for 2023-24)
2013-14
2015-16
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Co-editor of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
Sept 2022 → …
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Eissa Barroso, F. (PI)
1/02/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Eissa Barroso, F. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Election to learned society
Eissa Barroso, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Eissa Barroso, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Eissa Barroso, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Eissa Barroso, F. (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Research
10/02/24
1 Media contribution
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1/01/11
1 Media contribution
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