Isabel Burdiel, full professor in Contemporary History at the University of Valencia, has been awarded with the national prize of history thanks to her book ‘Isabel II. Una biografía (1830-1904)’. The prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry for Culture and set at 20,000 euros, recognizes the best history book published in Spain in 2010.
The president of the jury was Rogelio Blanco, general director of the Spanish body Archivos, Bibliotecas y Letras españolas. The members of the jury were José Luis Díez García, Antonio Bonet Correa, Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón, María Valentina Gómez Mampaso, María Ángeles Barrio Alonso, Fernando González Urbaneja, Josefina Gómez Mendoza and Carme Molinero Ruiz. The two last prizewinners were members as well: José Antonio Escudero López (2009) y Pablo Fernández Albaladejo (2010).
Isabel Burdiel is a full professor in Contemporary History at the University of Valencia and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK) from 2004. She is an expert in political and cultural history in the European liberalism of the XIX century. She is head of the European Network on Theory and Practice of Biography (ENTPB).
Among her publications are ‘Libros y ediciones críticas: - La política de los notables’ (1987), ‘Mary Wollstonecraft. Vindicación de los derechos de la mujer’ (1994), ‘Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, o el moderno Prometeo (1996), ‘Liberales, agitadores y conspiradores. Biografías heterodoxas del siglo XIX español’ (2000), along with the most complete biography of the Queen Isabel II.
Last update: 25 de november de 2011 08:24.
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