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Emilio La Parra (Palomares de Campo, 1949) received a doctorate in history from the University of Valencia.  He is currently a professor of contemporary history at the University of Alicante and an acclaimed specialist in the study of the transition between the 18^th and 19^th centuries.  He is the author of La libertad de prensa en las cortes de Cádiz (Freedom of the Press in the Courts of Cádiz), 1984; El primer liberalismo y la iglesia. Las cortes de Cádiz (The First Liberalism and the Church. The Courts of Cádiz), 1985; La alianza de Godoy con los revolucionarios. España y Francia a fines el siglo XVIII (Godoy’s Alliance with the Revolutionaries. Spain and France at the end of the 18^th Century), 1992; El regente Gabriel Ciscar. Ciencia y política en la España Romántica (The Regent Gabriel Ciscar. Science and Politics in Romantic Spain).  He is also author of collaborations in books such as El anticlericalismo español contemporáneo o la historia universal del siglo XX. (Contemporary Spanish Anti-clericism or the Universal History of the 20^th Century).  He is a member of the Spanish Association of Contemporary History and of the European Society of 18^th Century Studies, among others.