Carlos Martínez Shaw (born 1945) is a Spanish historian, professor emeritus of Early Modern History at the

National University of Distance Education The National Distance Education University, known in Spanish as ''Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia'' (UNED), is a public research university of national scope. The university was founded in 1972 under the Ministry of Universities. ...

(UNED). He is a member of the

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Biography

Born at calle de Cano y Cueto 14, in

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on 28 June 1945, he obtained a

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in History from the

University of Seville The University of Seville (''Universidad de Sevilla'') is a university in Seville, Spain. Founded under the name of ''Colegio Santa María de Jesús'' in 1505, it has a present student body of over 69.200, and is one of the top-ranked universi ...

in 1967. As he joined the

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to work in a research project on the colonial trade, he began to write his PhD thesis under the guidance of . He earned the PhD in 1973, reading a dissertation titled ''Cataluña en la carrera de Indias (1680-1756)''. He has been a full professor at the University of Santander/Cantabria (1984–1986), the

(1986–1994) and the

(1994–2015). He assumed as numerary member of the

(RAH) in November 2007, covering the chair #32 left vacant by the demise of Ángel Suquía, as he read a speech titled ''El sistema comercial español del Pacífico (1765–1820)''.

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