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