The creation of the Bank of Lisbon in December 1821, in the context of the Portuguese liberal revolution of 1820, provides a pretext for examining the main monetary and financial problems of the time, taking into account the particular period of political change and the possibility that it...

This chapter focuses on how the problems of economic development were addressed by the Portuguese historiography of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The ensuing discussion benefits from the simultaneous consideration of two historiographical domains that complement each other:...