La utilidad de la flora americana en el proyecto expedicionario de la España Ilustrada

Abstract

The new model, economical and political, devised by the enlightened Spanish was going to propiciate the execution of an ambitious, utopical and, in certain manner, original, plan of reconnaissance and exploitation of the colonial American facilities with evident tints monopolists. The development of this idea demanded the knowledge and the inventory of the natural resources as previous stage to the process of commercialization. The institutional development of this project is today very well-known; Being over from the commencements of the XlXth Century, the heavy «bureaucratic» machine still more sluggish because of the entrance of the French troops to Spain, it will allow that the final outcome were delayed until 1831.