Finanzas, política y honor. Los superintendentes y directores generales de la Renta del Tabaco durante la primera mitad del siglo XVIII

Abstract

In this paper we study the professional, financial, political and honorific careers of some tobacco fiscal monopoly’s top managers during the period when this royal income ceased to be leased and became a directly managed branch by the Royal Treasury. The majority of those high officials combined politico-financial activities with politico-administrative responsibilities and, generally, we perceive how they succeeded to adapt themselves to the existing situation after the tax farming suppression.