Los orígenes de la prensa liberal: el caso del "Periódico político y mercantil de la Villa de Reus" (1813-1814)

Abstract

The decree of November 1810, on freedom of the press, approved by the Court of Cadiz, facilitated the emergence of a set of progressive ideology journals. On October 4th 1813, the Periódico político y mercantil de la Villa de Reus, a reference in the early nineteenth century liberal press, was published in Reus. Its news referred to the Spanish constitutional process, the development of the war against the French and commercial information. Its editor was the prestigious doctor Jaume Ardevol.

Keywords

• prensa, guerra independencia, periodico liberal, libertad de imprenta, jaume ardévol.