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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... port , where the silver was dispatched to the peninsula . From there , as generations of historians have noted , colonial specie entered the sinews of European finance and commerce , contrib- uting to the Old World's transformation and ...
... port to service the highlands . Buenos Aires , until 1810 , mediated between Andean production of specie and its European con- sumers . As such , it was one of an archipelago of ports along the eastern shores of the New World facing its ...
... port that benefited most from empire , became the primary locus of revolu- tion after 1810. How did this corner of Bourbon authority come to spurn its own political handmaiden ? For the moment , we will have to leave this question open ...
... ports ( the asiento ) to the British for 30 years , and gave up the tiny fortress of Sacramento across the River Plate from Buenos Aires , to Britain's own ward , Portugal . For Spain these were troublesome losses ; with the loss of its ...
... ports im- mediately became occasions for colonial subjects to partake in illicit— and endemic - contraband , using New World specie to pay for the cargo . The asiento was a perpetual source of complaint for Spanish offi- cials . Buenos ...
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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