लेखक: Juan Carlos Garavaglia

Juan Carlos Garavaglia is ICREA Research Professor at the UPF, Barcelona and directeur d”études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Since 2009, he has directed the European Research Council project entitled “A Comparative History of the State Building Process in Latin America (1820–1870)”. His most recent publications include Las fuerzas de guerra en la construcción del Estado: América Latina, siglo XIX (Prohistoria Ediciones, Rosario, 2012), edited with Juan Pro Ruiz and Eduardo Zimmermann, and Configuraciones estatales, regiones y sociedades locales. América Latina, siglos XIX-XX (Ediciones Bellaterra/State Building in Latin America, Barcelona, 2011), edited with Claudia Contente.Juan Pro Ruiz is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and director of the journal Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea. He is the author of numerous studies related to the historical construction of the State in Spain and Latin America, including Estado, geometría y propiedad (1992), Estado y territorio en España (2007), and El Estatuto Real y la Constitución de 1837 (2010). He is currently directing the research project entitled “The Collective Imagination of the State: Models, Utopias, and Dystopias in the Construction of the Spanish Nation-State from a Comparative Perspective (Eighteenth-Twentieth Centuries)”.