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The Bourbon Reforms transitioned Spain's economic policy to be increasingly mercantilist, [21] an economic policy in which countries maximize their exports and minimize their imports to secure greater portion of wealth from a fixed amount in the world. This wealth was measured in the quantity that ended up in imperial treasuries.
The Restoration period was characterized by political instability, economic challenges, and social unrest. Key issues that defined the period include: [1] [2] Political conservatism: The Restoration was marked by a resurgence of conservative politics and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
Unlike the absolutist Ancien Régime, the Restoration Bourbon regime was a constitutional monarchy, with some limits on its power. The new king, Louis XVIII, accepted the vast majority of reforms instituted from 1792 to 1814. Continuity was his basic policy. He did not try to recover land and property taken from the royalist exiles.
Once they consolidated rule in Spain, the Bourbon monarchs embarked upon a series of reforms to revitalize the Spanish empire, which had significantly declined in power in the late Habsburg era. The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment had a strong impact in Spain and a ripple effect in Spanish American Enlightenment in Spain's overseas empire.
However, these reforms could not revive Spain's faltering economy and society, which remained burdened by feudal remnants. Despite creating a more unified Spanish state, the limitations of Bourbon reforms were evident in the persistence of seigneurial jurisdictions and the continued local power of the nobility. [2]
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