Assistant Professor of History Jeremy Adelman sku-760340876

Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World is a hardcover Latin American History Books title by Assistant Professor of History Jeremy Adelman. It examines the political history of economic life in Buenos Aires during the transition from colony to republic and relates that change to transformations across the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

The book traces a shift from colonial Natural Law to instrumental views of property. It argues that politics shaped private law, while efforts to formalize property shaped political struggles and support for a centralized, executive-dominated state.

Adelman examines commercial law, liberal political thought and constitutional turmoil after the collapse of Spanish authority, including how merchants and capitalists handled upheaval and how writers sought a liberal republican model. By the late nineteenth century, the model favored open markets while limiting political participation.

The book connects those foundations of Argentine statehood to later efforts to sustain economic growth and broaden democracy, arguing that they help explain many of Argentina's recent problems. SKU: sku-760340876.