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Alfonso W. Quiroz
 
Ph.D. Columbia University
Academic Affiliation: Professor, Baruch College
Office phone: 646-312-4315
Email: alfonso_quiroz@baruch.cuny.edu
Field of Scholarship

Latin American History

Selected Publications

Co-editor and co-author: Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz ( Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005) and The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Uses of a National Symbol (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006)

Domestic and Foreign Finance in Modern Peru, 1850-1950: Financing Visions of Development, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993).

Deudas Olvidadas: Instrumentos de Crédito en la Economía Colonial Peruana (Lima: Universidad Católica Press, 1993).

Banqueros en conflicto: estructura financiera y economía peruana, 1884-1930 (Lima: Universidad del Pacífico Press), 1990.

La deuda defraudada: consolidacion de 1850 y dominio económico en el Perú. Lima: Inst. Nacional de Cultura, 1987.

Articles/Reviews/Essays:

Basadre y su análisis de la corrupción en el Perú.” In Homenaje a Jorge Basadre. El hombre, su obra y su tiempo, ed. by S. O’Phelan and M. Ricketts. Lima: Universidad Catolica, 2005. Pp. 145-170.

Costos históricos de la corrupción en el Perú republicano.” In El pacto infame: estudios sobre la corrupción en el Perú, ed. by F. Portocarrero. Lima: Universidad del Pacifico, 2005. Pp.75-95.

Educación y sociedad civil en Cuba: reflexiones en torno a un siglo de evolución.” In Jirones de Hispanidad: España, Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas en la Perspectiva de dos cambios de siglo, ed. by M. Esteban et al. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2004. Pp. 291-301.

Implicit Costs of Empire: Bureaucratic Corruption in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.” Journal of Latin American Studies, 35 (2003). Pp. 473-511.

“The Evolution of Laws Regulating Associations and Civil Society in Cuba.” In Religion, Culture, and Society: The Case of Cuba, ed. by Margaret Crahan. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2003. Pp. 55-68.

La reforma educacional en Cuba, 1898-1909: cambio y continuidad.” In Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos, ed. by J. Coatsworth and R. Hernández. Havana: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, and Centro Juan  Marinello, 2001. Pp. 113-125.

Corrupción, burocracia colonial y veteranos separatistas en Cuba, 1868-1910.” Revista de Indias, 61 (2001). Pp. 91-111.

Public Memory and Popular Participation: Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898.” Biblion: The Bulletin of The New York Public Library 7: 2 (1999). Pp. 65-86.

"The Loyalist Overkill: Socioeconomic Costs of 'Repressing' the Separatist Insurrection in Cuba, 1868-1878," Hispanic American Historical Review,78:2 February (1998). Pp. 263-305.

"Reassessing the Role of Credit in Late Colonial Peru", in Hispanic American Historical Review, 74:2 (1994) Pp.193-230.

"Financial Development in Peru Under Agrarian Export Influence, 1884-1950", The Americas 47 (1991). Pp. 447-476.

"Financial Leadership and the Formation of Peruvian Elite Groups, 1884-1930", Journal of Latin American Studies 20 (1989), Pp. 447-476.


Other Activities:
Research: Modern and Colonial Economic and Social History Inquisition and the Church Financial History of Peru Cuban Nationalism and Liberalism.

Curator/Editor Exhibition on Spanish-American War at the New York Public Library (March 1998).

 

 
 
 
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