Modern and Contemporary History professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (UPF) since 1995. He is currently coordinating the History PhD programme from the Humanities Department. He is a Contemporary History doctor from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1983). He teaches subjects on colonial and contemporary History of America; Southeast Asian History; Pre-British and British India; compared colonial systems of the European empires from the Early and Late Modern Periods; on the Master in World History in UPF. In addition, he is an ICREA researcher. He has been an assistant lecturer in Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) (1987) and he has also been a guest or visiting lecturer in Harvard (1997, 2000, 2012-2013) and Princeton (2008); Chicago (2009); New York University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2001). These are his highlighted last publications: Gobernar colonias (Península, 1999), Filipinas, la colonia más peculiar (Las finanzas públicas en la determinación de la política colonial, 1762-1868 (CSIC, 1999), Colonias para después de un imperio (Bellaterra, 2005); La nación imperial. Derechos, representación y ciudadanía en los imperios de Gran Bretaña, Francia, España y los Estados Unidos, 1750-1918 (Edhasa, 2015) i The Imperial Nation. Citizens and Subjects in the Empires of Great Britain, France and the United Stes, (Princeton, 2018).