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Republic of Capital : Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World

Winner of the American Historical Association Prize in Atlantic HistoryTracing the transition from colonial Natural Law to instrumental legal understandings of property in Argentina, 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, it explores Atlantic world transformations in the 18th and 19th centuries
eBook, English, 2002
Stanford University Press, Redwood City, 2002
1 online resource (393 pages)
9780804764148, 080476414X
1041053757
Cover; Contents; 1 Toward a Political History of Economic Life; SECTION I: The Age of Revolution, 1780's-1820's; 2 Imperial Reconstitution and the Limits of Political Property; 3 The Quest for Equipoise in the Shadow of Revolution; 4 From Revolution to Civil War; SECTION II: The Age of ""Anarchy, "" 1820's-1850's; 5 Rosas Agonistes, or the Political Economy of Cronyism; 6 Chains of Obligation: The Duress of Merchant Law; 7 Reconsidering the Republic; SECTION III: The Age of Order, 1850's-1860's; 8 Constitutional Persuasions; 9 The New Property of Merchant Capital. 10 Making Money: The Battle for Monetary Authority11 The Unfinished Revolution of the Republic of Capital; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z