More keys for understanding the ordinary budgets of the Spanish Monarchy from a territorial perspective

SolbesFerri,Sergio.MorekeysforunderstandingtheordinarybudgetsoftheSpanish monarchyinthe1760decadefromaterritorialperspective/SergioSolbesFerri,en:Conway, Stephen,TorresSánchez,Rafael(eds.),Thespendingofstates:militaryexpeditureduringthe longeighteenthcentury:patterns,organisationandconsequences:1650‐1815. ‐‐ Saarbrücken:VDMVerlag,2011.‐‐978‐3‐639‐36623‐5,pp.129‐153  Resumen TheSpanishRoyalFinancesoftheXVIIIcenturyleftanoverwhelmingvolumenof documents.Theseconsistofmanythousandofbundlesofpaperswicharemainlypreservedin theArchivoGeneralofSimancas.Theirimportanceasafeasiblesourcefortheelaborationof theMonarchy’sgeneralbudgetsisunquestionable;however,suchaconsiderable documentarybasemakesresearchtough,tediousandcomplex. WithinthefieldosstudyofthegeneralbudgetsofSpanishMonarchy,aratherdiacchronic concept,weobservedthatthedocumentcollectioninAGCisorganisedinthreevastsections: DirecciónGeneraldeRentas(DGR),TesoreríaGeneral(DGT)yContaduríasGenerales(TMC).