Un espacio reformista en el Madrid de Fernando VIIla Real Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País (1814-1833)

Abstract

After the Spanish Independence War (1808-1814), the Royal Economic Societies of Country´s Friends impelled their activities for the economic development and the social improvement again. The Matritense Society impelled several establishments like the School for Deaf-mutes, the School of Shorthand, the class of Political Economy, the School of Decoration Drawing and Animals Dissected, inside an reformist and liberal program. It also offered the development of the technological improvements by means of the care on their Machines and Tools Collection, the intent of creating a Mechanics School and the installation of factories that were schools of Arts and Occupations. The madrilenian Country´s Friends participated, for Fernando’s VII Government order, in the exam of patents, the censorship of books and guild ordinances reformation.