El Banco de Espana y el Estado liberal (1847-1874)

摘要

Spain's financial history during the nineteenth century was extremely turbulent, as the state defaulted repeatedly on its debt and it was not until the 1870s that the country consolidated a stable central bank. So far, historians have been mainly interested in the origins of the first privileged banks (the banks of San Carlos, San Fernando and Isabel Ⅱ), in regional financial institutions (for example, the Bank of Barcelona) and in the emergence of large commercial and investment banks during the Restoration era (1876-1923). By analysing the early history of the Bank of Spain, from its inception (1856) until the year in which it was granted a monopoly of issue (1874), Pedro Tedde's book is the first systematic attempt to fill the existing gap in research on the central decades of the century.