Ideas and political thought of Martin de Garay

Authors

  • Nuria Alonso Garcés Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i7.43

Keywords:

Martín de Garay, Intendente, Guerra de la Independencia, Junta Central, Cortes de Cádiz, Reforma de Hacienda, Fernando VII.

Abstract

Martín de Garay was born in 1771 in Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, although he considered himself Aragones because his family had lived in La Almunia de doña Godina – a small town in Saragossa- since the 16th century. Garay tried to reform the public funds system when he occupied the Treasury in 1817 and 1818 -as everybody knows- but he also took an active part in a lot of decisions which contributed to collapse the old structures of the Ancien Régime in Spain - as only a small group of researchers knows. His political thinking and ideas remained hidden in the middle of his private archives for two hundred years until they arrived to the hands of his only one descendant that had studied History: that’s me. Maybe those old papers can clarify who Martín de Garay really was and his importance in the History of Spain.

 

Submission date: 14/01/2006
Acceptance date: 24/04/2006

Author Biography

Nuria Alonso Garcés, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Profesora de Historia. Ha colaborado en diversos trabajos de investigación y congresos sobre Historia Contemporánea de Galicia y didáctica de la Historia. Sus publicaciones y línea de investigación se dirigen en la actualidad al seguimiento de la figura de Martín de Garay sobre cuya biografía versa su tesis doctoral.

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Issue

No. 7 (2006): Historia Constitucional N. 7 (2006)

Section

Spain, Portugal and Iberoamerica

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