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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... Revolution , 1780's - 1820's Imperial Reconstitution and the Limits of Political Property The Quest for Equipoise in the Shadow of Revolution From Revolution to Civil War SECTION II : The Age of " Anarchy , " 1820's - 1850's Rosas ...
... revolution and warfare ; in Spanish America it was an initial turning point in what was to be- come a century of turmoil . Facing incarceration , this merchant pleaded to the Commercial Tribunal to rescue him from the " hurried and im ...
... revolutions . Republic of Capital places Argentina ( and Buenos Aires in particular ) in a comparative con- text . No less ... revolution in languages familiar to citizens elsewhere . Ultimately , the transformation of Atlantic trade and ...
... revolution and civil war mobilized society into deeply antagonistic camps whose wars destroyed the foundations of property and social hi- erarchy . Together , these unintended bequests of the viceregal overthrow in 1810 meant that ...
... Revolution seized the Atlantic world during the years 1776 to the 1820's . Beginning with North American secession and cul- minating in the separation of Latin American colonies from their Iberian cores , the dynastic bridge between ...
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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