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

Jeremy Adelman

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. 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.

Politics & GovernmentPolitics & Government · high confidencePolitics & Government81 signalsLlm Classifier: Politics & Government -> Politics & GovernmentOpen Library: Constitutional history -> American HistoryOpen Library: Politics and government -> Politics & GovernmentScience & DiscoveryBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsConstitutional HistoryLiterature & Writers

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
American Historical Association Book Prizes: James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History1999WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

    • Buenos Aires90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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    The legal and political foundations of Argentine capitalism were forged through how merchants and capitalists, amid upheaval from colony to republic, navigated transformations in commercial law and liberal republican political credos.

    Model confidence 45%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

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