Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País de la Habana

Headquarters of the Sociedad Económica, Havana (photo 2016)

The Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País de la Habana or Real Sociedad Patriótica de la Habana (est. 1792 or 1793) is a learned society in Havana, Cuba. It was initially organized to promote agriculture, commerce, education, and industry,[1] modelled on the Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País in Spain. Founding members included Diego de la Barrera, Francisco Joseph Basabe, José Agustín Caballero, Luis de Las Casas, Juan Manuel O'Farrill, Tomás Romay y Luis Peñalver, and Antonio Robledo.[2][3] In its early decades the group produced publications, maintained a library in the Convento de Santo Domingo (1800-1844),[4] and arranged educational programs.[5] Around the 1790s the group built the Hospicio o Casa de Beneficencia in Havana.[3]

Variant names

The society has renamed itself several times, as follows:[6]

References

  1. Carnegie Institution 1908.
  2. "¿Quiénes Somos?" (in Spanish). Havana: Sociedad Económica Amigos del País. Archived from the original on November 15, 2004.
  3. 1 2 Paul Niell (2015). Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba: Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828. University of Texas Press. pp. 59–67. ISBN 978-0-292-76659-4.
  4. Miguel Viciedo Valdés (2005), "Breve reseña sobre la biblioteca pública en Cuba antes de 1959", Acimed (in Spanish), Havana: Centro Nacional de Informacion de Ciencias Medicas, 14 (1), ISSN 1024-9435
  5. Alfonso W. Quiroz (2011). "Free Association and Civil Society in Cuba, 1787-1895". Journal of Latin American Studies. 43 (1). doi:10.1017/S0022216X10001781 via Rollins College. (subscription required (help)).
  6. "Sociedad Económica Amigos del País". EcuRed (in Spanish). Cuba: Joven Club de Computación. Retrieved October 3, 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

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