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

by Jeremy Adelman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804746826
• ISBN13: 9780804746823
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"