 |
Room 5419 The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016 (212) 817-8438 clacls@gc.cuny.edu |
 |
 |
||
Alfonso W. Quiroz is Professor of History
at Baruch College and the Graduate School. He is currently working on the economic
and intellectual history of Cuba in the nineteenth century. He has published
several books, chapters, and articles on Peruvian and Cuban history and curated
major exhibitions on the War of 1898 at the New York Public Library and New-York
Historical Society. He has been awarded major grants from the Spanish Ministry
of Education, McNamara Program of the World Bank, Humboldt Foundation, the Social
Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Commission among others. His books
include Domestic and Foreign Finance
in Modern Peru, 1850-1950: Financing Visions of Development (London and Pittsburgh: Macmillan and Pittsburgh
University 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); and La deuda
defraudada. Consolidación de 1850 y dominio económico en el Perú (Lima:
Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1987).