Josep M. Fradera (Mataró, 1952) is a professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the University of Pompeu Fabra. He has been an invited and visiting professor at universities such as Princeton, University of Chicago, Harvard, and EHESS in Paris. He is the author of Indústria i mercat (1987), Cultura nacional en una societat dividida (1992), Jaume Balmes: els fonaments racionals d’una politica catòlica (1996), Gobernar colonias (1999), Colonias para después de un imperio (2005), La pàtria dels catalans (2009), and La nación imperial (1750-1918) (2015, translated into English as The Imperial Nation in 2018). He is the co-editor of Slavery and Antislavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire alongside Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (2013) and Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments (2021).