El proyecto político ensenadista en la polémica sobre el despotismo ilustrado en España : Notas sobre el proyecto de investigación "Ensenada 2002"

Abstract

The author of this work presents an investigation programme about the Ensenada's polity. He justifies the neccesity of biography, because Ensenada is a not well-known personage and bis lije, bis origines, bis cultural education, bis military experience, etc., hada notable influence in bis way of lije and in bis politic programme. Besides, in this article, the author exposes some points of the Ensenada's project - summary of the a book that he will publish atan early date- in arder to con tribute to the "Illustrated Despotism "knowledge in Spain. The historian thoughts that there was, in fact, illustrated politic programmes, like jor example which had Ensenada, and there was enormous resistances when the some ministers tryed to carry out In the Ensenada's project case, the resistances were smaller than in the later projects. However, the fall of the Ensenada demostrate that the reformer and state politys hada big impact in the social, economic and politics structures of the XVIIIth in Spain.