The Economic Societies in the Spanish World
ABSTRACT
This colloquium analyzed the process of creation of the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country, both in Spain and in Spanish-American countries, by studying their foundational texts and the main debates that took place at their meetings. The discussion was about the principles, proposals, and activities of those societies as part of the transformation process that the Hispanic world went through during the last years of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Documentos Constitutivos de la Real Sociedad Matritense de Amigos del País (1775).
Memorias de la Real Sociedad Matritense de Amigos del País (1780).
Espejo Eugenio, Francisco. Discurso a la muy leal ciudad de Quito (1792).
Henríquez, Camilo. Antología (editor Raul Silva Castro). Santiago de Chile, Ed. Andrés Bello, 1979.
Irissary, Jose Antonio. Discurso Ignaugural en la Apertura de la Sociedad Económica Amigos del País (1813).
Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor. Informe de Ley Agraria (1795).
Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País. Memorias y Estudios (1829-1839). Caracas, Banco Central de Venezuela, 1958.
Del Valle, José Cecilio. Obras Escogidas. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1982.
Rodríguez, Pedro Conde de Campomanes. Discurso sobre el Fomento de la Industria. Asturias: Asturiano, 1774.