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This book presents an innovative history of the first Portuguese public bank, by exploring the relationship between banking activities and the political context. It provides an overview of the origins of the banking system in Portugal, and also in Brazil, and explores new archive materials related to the first years of activity of the Bank of Lisbon and to the public debates on monetary and public finance topics. It discusses the main features of the Bank of Lisbon: a private bank with a mandate to issue banknotes for the purposes of regulating monetary circulation, and with the function of financing the State for current payments, as well as for the amortisation of public debt and the creat...
Original ed. was complete in 29 vols.; reprint adds an index, as v. 31; and an anthology of biographical articles about the editor, with title: Hipólito José da Costa e o Correio braziliense, as v. 30 (in 2 parts).
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