![]() Their exceptionally rich records allowed me to reconstruct the networks and trajectories of the mobility of four generations of this ‘global’ family. The Boulignys were not exceptional in the Hispanic world, neither during their time in Alicante nor during their subsequent dispersion. Starting in the 1760s, they became soldiers and diplomats, serving the Spanish Bourbons in Istanbul, Madrid, Naples, New Orleans, and Oran, among other places. At the beginning of the century, the Boulignys migrated from Marseilles to Alicante, founding a profitable retail business in the city’s main commercial street. dissertation, "The Bouligny family (1700-1830), a ‘Global’ Casa?" was a global microhistory focused on a specific mobile family, the Boulignys, and their role in anchoring processes of globalization in the eighteenth-century Spanish world. Before joining Trajectories of Reform, between 20, I was Salvador de Madariaga's fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), under the supervision of Regina Grafe. We are also organizing a conference on ongoing mobilities in the early modern period taking place in March 2021, and we have published several blog posts on the itinerancy of Early Bourbon officials. At the moment, I am co-authoring an article with Francisco Eissa-Barroso on what these life-trajectories show us about Early Bourbon Reformism. During my postdoc research, I am working with trajectories of three specific itinerant royal officials in the Spanish Atlantic. ![]() Headed by Francisco Eissa-Barroso, and based in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at The University of Manchester (SPLAS-UoM), this project seeks to understand Bourbon reformism from bellow, using the experiences of the mobility of itinerant royal officials to investigate how practices of government and ideas of governance developed in the Early Bourbon Spanish world. Careering, Networks & Empire under the Early Bourbons (1700-1759)". Since April 2020, I have been a research associate for the AHRC-funded project "Trajectories of Reform in the Spanish World. My major interests are global-local dichotomy the methods for developing global microhistory studies mobility spatiality the role of formal and informal institutions at the Bourbon Spanish Empire the role of the economic and cultural inter-dependencies in Iberian worlds during the eighteenth-century and the parallels between the Iberian empires. research was a global microhistory study focused on a specific family of French retailers settled in Alicante, who spread around the world during the second half of the eighteenth century. 2020), I developed a global microhistory on the Bouligny family, looking to understand how globalization was anchored in Bourbon Spanish Empire. time at the European University Institute in Florence (Ph.D. Careering, Networks & Empire under the Early Bourbons (1700-1759)', in which I am tracking the life-path of three itinerant royal officers across the Spanish Atlantic World, aiming to understand Early-Bourbon reformism, and the Spanish world, from a bottom-up perspective. ![]() Currently, I am working as a Research Associated at AHRC-funded project 'Trajectories of Reform. I am a global historian working on eighteenth-century Iberia(s).
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