Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic WorldStanford University Press, 02.07.2002 - 392 Seiten This book is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to republic in Buenos Aires, Republic of Capital explores Atlantic world transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Tracing the transition from colonial Natural Law to instrumental legal understandings of property, the book shows that the developments of constitutionalism and property law were more than coincidences: the polity shaped the rituals and practices arbitrating economic justice, while the crisis of property animated the support for a centralized and executive-dominated state. In dialectical fashion, politics shaped private law while the effort to formalize the domain of property directed the course of political struggles. In studying the legal and political foundations of Argentine capitalism, the author shows how merchants and capitalists coped with massive political upheaval and how political writers and intellectuals sought to forge a model of liberal republicanism. Among the topics examined are the transformation of commercial law, the evolution of liberal political credos, and the saga of political and constitutional turmoil after the collapse of Spanish authority. By the end of the nineteenth century, statemakers, capitalists, and liberal intellectuals settled on a model of political economy that aimed for open markets but closed the polity to widespread participation. The author concludes by exploring the long-term consequences of nineteenth-century statehood for the following century's efforts to promote sustained economic growth and democratize the political arena, and argues that many of Argentina's recent problems can be traced back to the framework and foundations of Argentine statehood in the nineteenth century. |
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... to depict the ebb and flow of constitutionalist efforts failed and triumphant alike . What constitutionalists sought were durable rules to govern the process of rule - making , to give Toward a Political History of Economic Life 3.
... flows induced state - builders and investors to nurture a po- litical community oriented to the promise of European demand for com- modities , and a magnet for Europe's capital and migrants . From start to finish , the story of state ...
... Aires : its commercial and administrative exis- tence depended on the preservation of the flow of silver from Potosí to Cádiz . The city's social complexion and fealty to empire 20 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION , 1780's - 1820's.
... flow . Consequently , for creole elites , the spectacle of events in the British and French empires , their loss of the thirteen colonies and Saint Domingue respectively , bor- dered on anathema . As the child of imperial reform ...
... flow of specie and revenue that had hitherto disap- peared into the deep pockets of venal officials or shrewd merchants.12 These reforms were more a boon to Buenos Aires than to Spain . First consider the fiscal effects of these changes ...
Inhalt
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The Quest for Equipoise in the Shadow of Revolution | 49 |
From Revolution to Civil War | 74 |
Rosas Agonistes or the Political Economy of Cronyism | 109 |
The Duress of Merchant Law | 141 |
Reconsidering the Republic | 165 |
Constitutional Persuasions | 193 |
The New Property of Merchant Capital | 224 |
The Battle for Monetary Authority | 251 |
The Unfinished Revolution of the Republic of Capital | 279 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 331 |
Index | 365 |
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