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Elvira L Vilches

Associate Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27713
218 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Commerce and Mercantile Culture in Early Modern Spain · 2013 - 2014 Awarded by: Fellowship American Council of Learned Societies Commerce and Mercantile Culture in Early Modern Spain examines the vibrant commercial culture that thrived with the 1500s commercial expansion, struggled in the 1600s, and rebounded in the late 1600s. Far-reaching trade brought new attitudes towards wealth, the common good, and learning that expanded well into the 18th century. It demonstrates how practical modes of thinking created a shift in values from honor to business, trade, and money. In the epistemological moment the book describes we find new ways of thinking about the relationship between theory, practice, and ethics that are typical of modernity, new methods to build and produce wealth, and new attitudes towards the importance of commerce and the state, as well as professional self-advancement, across the Hispanic world.
Commerce and Mercantile Culture in Early Modern Spain · 2013 - 2014 Awarded by: John Carter Brown Library, National Endowment for the Humanities
Center for New World Comparative Studies · 2003 Awarded by: John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies · 2002 - 2003 Awarded by: American Council of Learned Societies
Center for Twentieth Century Studies · 2001 - 2002 Awarded by: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee