Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes y Pérez Sorriba, 1st Count of Campomanes, was a Spanish statesman, economist, and writer who was Minister of the Treasury in 1760. He was an adherent of the position that
Portrait by Francisco Bayeu, 1777
Posthumous portrait by Eduardo Balaca, 1879
Bourbon Reforms
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The Bourbon Reforms were a series of political and economic changes promulgated by the Spanish Crown beginning with Charles III and continuing under various kings of the House of Bourbon, mainly in th
Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes
…on the Church's acquisition of real property. By the seventeenth century, Spain's economy was stagnant and the Church wealthy, such that during the Bourbon Reforms, limits on the Church's holding of property were seen as a way to make the economy more dynamic. His works on ways to revive the Spanish economy were…
Charles III of Spain, who initiated the vigorous programs of reform.
José de Gálvez, Visitador general in New Spain and later Minister of the Indies.
Palacio de Minería, Mexico City. The crown sought to make silver mining more productive and the silver magnates ennobled; it created the College of Mines and the Royal Mining Court
Uniforms of four line infantry regiments raised in New Spain due to the Bourbon Reforms in 1788