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Graduate Program in History

Adrian Shubert

Degrees:  PhD, 1982, Queen Mary College, University of London
MA, 1978, University of Warwick
MA, 1976, University of New Mexico
BA, 1975, University of Toronto
 
 
Current Position:  Professor, History 
Associate Vice-President International
 

Publications:

 

A las Cinco de la Tarde: Historia de la Corrida de Toros, (Madrid, Turner, 2002)

The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections, (Toronto, Gage, 2002), with Arthur Haberman

Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of Spanish Bullfighting, (New York, Oxford University Press, 1999), 270 pages.

Spain at War: the Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931-1939, (London, Longmans, 1995), co-authored with George Esenwein, 289 pages

The Land and People of Spain, (New York, HarperCollins, 1992), 256 pages

Historia social de Espana, 1800-1990, (Madrid, Nerea, 1991), 390 pages

A Social History of Modern Spain, 1800-1982, (London and Boston, Unwin-Hyman, 1990), 292 pages
- second printing by Routledge, 1993

The Road to Revolution in Spain. The Coal Miners of Asturias, 1860-1934, (Champaign-Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1987), 185 pages

Hacia la revolución. Orígenes sociales del movimiento obrero en Asturias, 1860-1934, (Barcelona, Crítica, 1984), 174 pages 

 

Papers/ Lectures: "Internationalizing the University: A Canadian Perspective", keynote address at Conference on "Languages and Cultures across the Curriculum" Binghamton University, October 2004

"La corrida y la historia de España", 25th Annual Inaugural Lecture, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Valencia, November 2003

"A las cinco de la tarde: la historia social de la corrida de toros en España, 1700-1900", Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, June 2003

"When Spain wasn't Different: the Beginnings of Tourism Policy in Spain, 1905-1936", Annual Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of Georgia, April 2002

"The Co-ordinates of Time and Place: History and the Paradoxes of Globalization", Symposium on the Paradoxes of Globalization, Canadian centre for German and European Studies, York University, March 2002

""At Five in the Afternoon": Writing the History of Spanish Bullfighting", Centre for European Studies, University of Connecticut, October 2001

"What do the Basques Want?: The Basque Situation in Spain Today", World Events Forum, Toronto, February, 2001

"Censorship in 19th-century Spain", Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,
Boston, January, 2001

"Espartero: del ídolo al olvido", Symposium on Biography in Spanish History, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Y Pelayo, Valencia, September, 2000

"Death and Money in the Afternoon: Writing the History of Bullfighting", University of Bielefeld (Germany), May 2000

"Espartero: from idol to oblivion", Annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York, April 2000

"Death and Money in the Afternoon: Writing the History of Bullfighting", Graduate Programme in Sociology Workshop, York University, March 2000


 

Courses taught recently:

 

AS/HIST 1000C Before the U.S.: the American Southwest, 1450-1850.
 
Research Interests: Modern Spain
 
Awards/Grants:  

Comendador de la Orden de Mérito Civil (awarded by King Juan Carlos of Spain), April 1999

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1997-1998

York University Faculty of Arts Leave Fellowship, 1997-1998 (declined)

Nave Fellowship, Department of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 1994

SSHRC Research Grant, 1992-1995

Canada Research Fellowship, 1987-1990