El Marqués de Salamanca y la amortización de los ferrocarriles

  1. Sánchez García, Raquel
Journal:
Cuadernos de historia contemporánea

ISSN: 0214-400X 1988-2734

Year of publication: 2003

Issue: 25

Pages: 199-215

Type: Article

More publications in: Cuadernos de historia contemporánea

Abstract

The rail companies were deeply affected by the economic crisis of 1866. The businessmenand the investors, pressed by their losses, asked the government about a way to face theproblem. One of them, José de Salamanca, wrote a letter to the president Ramón Narváezsuggesting him a project whereby the government took charge of the railways. This arti-cle analyses Salamanca’s project in the context of the aforemetioned crisis.