Hugh Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300121094
- eISBN:
- 9780300142464
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300121094.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This book presents the biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros, who was a conquistador. He conquered markets, not peoples, and these conquests began in ...
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This book presents the biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros, who was a conquistador. He conquered markets, not peoples, and these conquests began in his own country, Spain, not in Mexico or in Peru, where men such as Cortés and Pizarro made their names. Barreiros's triumphs included exports in countries as far removed and as far apart as Egypt and Venezuela and Portugal and Germany. Barreiros came to maturity in the 1950s, when the regime in Franco's Spain was almost as hostile to private enterprise as Communist ministers would have been. Successive Spanish ministers of industry, Suanzes in particular but also Sirvent and the alleged modernizer López Bravo, spurned independent entrepreneurs, and were still advocates of national syndicalism, which, in practice, was a kind of bureaucratic statism. Barreiros, who, with his brothers, created a large industrial empire from nothing in ten years, proved that these great men were mistaken. He was a motor manufacturer and made trucks, tractors, buses, and, finally, saloon cars. The later life of Barreiros had its frustrations as well as its triumphs.Less
This book presents the biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros, who was a conquistador. He conquered markets, not peoples, and these conquests began in his own country, Spain, not in Mexico or in Peru, where men such as Cortés and Pizarro made their names. Barreiros's triumphs included exports in countries as far removed and as far apart as Egypt and Venezuela and Portugal and Germany. Barreiros came to maturity in the 1950s, when the regime in Franco's Spain was almost as hostile to private enterprise as Communist ministers would have been. Successive Spanish ministers of industry, Suanzes in particular but also Sirvent and the alleged modernizer López Bravo, spurned independent entrepreneurs, and were still advocates of national syndicalism, which, in practice, was a kind of bureaucratic statism. Barreiros, who, with his brothers, created a large industrial empire from nothing in ten years, proved that these great men were mistaken. He was a motor manufacturer and made trucks, tractors, buses, and, finally, saloon cars. The later life of Barreiros had its frustrations as well as its triumphs.
Hugh Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300121094
- eISBN:
- 9780300142464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300121094.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter elaborates on the different aspects of the Barreiroses of Sabadelle. Luzdivina met her husband, Eduardo Barreiros Nespereira, at a fair, probably sometime in 1918. Eduardo Barreiros ...
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This chapter elaborates on the different aspects of the Barreiroses of Sabadelle. Luzdivina met her husband, Eduardo Barreiros Nespereira, at a fair, probably sometime in 1918. Eduardo Barreiros Nespereira, the father of Eduardo, was remembered as a santo by a family friend, José Fernández Quintas, who also thought him a magnificent person who was dedicated entirely to his work. His grandson Eduardo Javier remembered him as very good and very religious but, although good at small-scale business affairs, not so much at home with big undertakings. On those fortunate islands, as the Canaries had been known in antiquity, Eduardo Barreiros Nespereira planned not only to make enough money eventually to bring Luzdivina and the young Eduardo to join him, but also to establish a business that would enable him to return rich to Galicia.Less
This chapter elaborates on the different aspects of the Barreiroses of Sabadelle. Luzdivina met her husband, Eduardo Barreiros Nespereira, at a fair, probably sometime in 1918. Eduardo Barreiros Nespereira, the father of Eduardo, was remembered as a santo by a family friend, José Fernández Quintas, who also thought him a magnificent person who was dedicated entirely to his work. His grandson Eduardo Javier remembered him as very good and very religious but, although good at small-scale business affairs, not so much at home with big undertakings. On those fortunate islands, as the Canaries had been known in antiquity, Eduardo Barreiros Nespereira planned not only to make enough money eventually to bring Luzdivina and the young Eduardo to join him, but also to establish a business that would enable him to return rich to Galicia.
Hugh Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300121094
- eISBN:
- 9780300142464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300121094.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter discusses the agricultural conditions of Eduardo Barreiros's birth place in Spain. Barreiros, prince of industrial innovation in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, and imaginative ...
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This chapter discusses the agricultural conditions of Eduardo Barreiros's birth place in Spain. Barreiros, prince of industrial innovation in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, and imaginative entrepreneur in Cuba in the 1980s, was born on October 24, 1919, in Gundiás, a hamlet in Galicia. In the province of Orense, the bishop or the Cistercian or Benedictine monks were the biggest landowners, and would lease land to tenants who would pay 2 percent of the value of the harvested crop as rent. Barreiros's ancestors would have been subtenants of the foreros of San Esteban, on whom they would have been dependent for nearly everything, justice included. In the province of Orense, the most important landlords had been the monastic orders, especially the Cistercians at their magnificent edifice of Oseira near the city of Orense.Less
This chapter discusses the agricultural conditions of Eduardo Barreiros's birth place in Spain. Barreiros, prince of industrial innovation in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, and imaginative entrepreneur in Cuba in the 1980s, was born on October 24, 1919, in Gundiás, a hamlet in Galicia. In the province of Orense, the bishop or the Cistercian or Benedictine monks were the biggest landowners, and would lease land to tenants who would pay 2 percent of the value of the harvested crop as rent. Barreiros's ancestors would have been subtenants of the foreros of San Esteban, on whom they would have been dependent for nearly everything, justice included. In the province of Orense, the most important landlords had been the monastic orders, especially the Cistercians at their magnificent edifice of Oseira near the city of Orense.
Hugh Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300121094
- eISBN:
- 9780300142464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300121094.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter focuses on the volunteers of the war in Spain. Among those who left on one of those early expeditions of requetés from Orense was the young Eduardo Barreiros, a volunteer aged nearly ...
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This chapter focuses on the volunteers of the war in Spain. Among those who left on one of those early expeditions of requetés from Orense was the young Eduardo Barreiros, a volunteer aged nearly seventeen. Eduardo himself recalled the expedition from Corunna to join the Requites. The fighting had been fierce in the Sierra de Guadarrama since July 20, 1936, for a well-trained Republican militia had arrived at this front, led by Communist commanders such as Manuel Tagüeña and Juan Modesto, who would become important later, with some units of the well-trained Communist so-called fifth regiment. These also included some regular officers loyal to the Republic. The two villains of the night of Calvo Sotelo's murder, Condés and Cuenca, met their richly deserved ends in the fighting.Less
This chapter focuses on the volunteers of the war in Spain. Among those who left on one of those early expeditions of requetés from Orense was the young Eduardo Barreiros, a volunteer aged nearly seventeen. Eduardo himself recalled the expedition from Corunna to join the Requites. The fighting had been fierce in the Sierra de Guadarrama since July 20, 1936, for a well-trained Republican militia had arrived at this front, led by Communist commanders such as Manuel Tagüeña and Juan Modesto, who would become important later, with some units of the well-trained Communist so-called fifth regiment. These also included some regular officers loyal to the Republic. The two villains of the night of Calvo Sotelo's murder, Condés and Cuenca, met their richly deserved ends in the fighting.
