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Puerto Rico 1840 Diploma Sociedad Economica Amigos del Pais de la Capital de PR :
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EXTREMELY RARE!!! - Puerto Rico 1840 Diploma Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais De La Capital de Puerto Rico (This is the earliest known specimen in this condition). Other known specimen in Private collection dated 1870, no other specimens exist or known at the Biblioteca Nacional / Archivo General de PR archives. Dimensions - 11.5\" x 16\". Otorgando titulo de Socio Corresponsal a Don Antonio Caparros. (Comandante del 3ro de Milicias). Diploma-Certificate, ca1840, has fold marks/stains, has been attached to cardboard mat (previous owner had in frame) has environmental damage, some torn/frayed sections, soil/foxing stains, holes, others. Overall in great condition. Dr. Lucas Mattei Rodriguez, REAL SOCIEDAD ECONOMICA DE AMIGOS DEL PAIS DE PRLa Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de PuertoRico tuvo como fin el progreso de la Isla a través de formulación deiniciativas y la creación de proyectos encaminados a fomentar el desarrolloeconómico, la circulación de las luces y conocimientos, la introducción yadopción de métodos educativos, agrícolas, industriales y comercialesorientados al engrandecimiento de la patria. Su influencia en la vida políticay económica durante el siglo XIX trazaron senderos imborrables. Aun cuando sushomólogas en América y en la Península enfrentaban un gran declive durante elperiodo revolucionario, la Sociedad Económica de Puerto Rico desempeño unimportante papel en la elaboración de estrategias para lograr elaprovechamiento del momento y el desarrollo de posibilidades. Había otrasinstituciones sectoriales, como el Ayuntamiento, Cabildo Eclesiástico,Intendencia y Diputación Provincial, que velaban por los intereses de susrespectivas organizaciones: en cambio la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País,que congregaba a importantes personalidades de la burguesía industrial,agrícola y comercial, a altos funcionarios, militares, religiosos y a ladistinguida élite intelectual puertorriqueña, logró que todos convergieran ycomprendieran, mucho antes que el gobierno y las fuerzas políticas, hacia dondedebía ir la Isla y cuál era la visión de país que les correspondía desarrollar.
La Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de PuertoRico estuvo siempre consciente de su papel dirigente en la sociedad. Si muysignificativas fueron las propuestas presentadas y los proyectos que lograronencaminarse, más importante parece ser el papel que las deliberaciones internastuvieron en la toma de conciencia de la élite y la burguesía puertorriqueña;esta Institución se constituyó en punto de encuentro, de discusión y deaportación de ideas y personas para el desarrollo de la vida civil y políticade Puerto Rico. Fue un ente unificador de intereses y tendencias para elaborarun proyecto de país.
In the larger view, the work of the New World Economic Societies was important for bringing Enlightenment ideas to the Spanish colonies, which was a necessary precondition for independence struggles after 1810. Some of the societies published essays on new developments in agriculture, industry, and other fields; they often advocated for relaxation of Imperial mercantilist economic regulation, with occasional (though short-lived) success. In both Spain and the colonies, the Sociedades Económicas were incubators for modern forms of socialization, in which people (mostly men) gathered publicly to discuss the issues of the day. This represents a departure from the French Enlightenment\'s Salon, which was a private gathering in someone\'s home. The Sociedades generally organized themselves formally, maintaining minutes of meetings, and having a set structure of officials to discharge various organizational duties.
In the American colonies, the Sociedades Económicas were established in Havana (1793), Santiago Chile, Santa Fe de Bogota (under the name of \"Patriotic Society\", 1801) Buenos Aires, Guatemala, Quito, Caracas. Dr. Jose Gualberto Padilla together with Roman Baldorioty de Castro, founded the Puerto Rican chapter of the Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País and called it \"La Sociedad de Amigos del País de Puerto Rico\". Only one of these American groups, that of Guatemala, is known to have had any significant local influence at the time, and only one of them lasted for a long period of time (that of Havana exists today). Their mission of promoting local economic development, especially industry, conflicted with the dictates of mercantilism which held that the colonies should remain dependent on the mother country. To the degree that intellectual development lagged in the New World, the Societies also had to fight an uphill battle to popularise Enlightenment thinking in the context of a very conservative culture. Members were generally drawn from the local aristocracy, the university faculty if there was one in the city, professionals (e.g. lawyers), and skilled artisans. It is noteworthy that in the New World colonies, the later independence movements\' first members were drawn from the same social categories.
Some of the groups in the Americas also strayed into activity that bordered on the political, and were punished by having their legal licenses revoked, which forced them to close, as happened repeatedly to the Society in Guatemala, for example. In some cities, the actual amount of useful work done was little, and they were rather more like faddish pet projects of a local intellectual and withered with the departure of the main personality who had gotten it started.
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