Historia Global y Cultura Constitucional: Una nota sobre la traducción y circulación de doctrina jurídica en la Argentina del siglo diecinueve

• Main Author: Eduardo Zimmermann
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2014-05-01
• Series: Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
• Subjects: global history; constitutionalism; Latin America; transnacional circulation; translations
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/66772

By taking as a case study the reception and adaptation made by Argentine jurists and lawyers of U.S. constitutional doctrine and jurisprudence in the second half of the nineteenth century, in a series of translations and textbooks, this article explores possible ways of connecting the new global and transnational history with Latin American historiography. In particular, it focuses on the analysis of the transnational dimension of liberal constitutionalism in Latin America, the fusion of the global and the local in the making of a particular constitutional culture and on the social mechanisms which facilitated its diffusion. In doing so, it illustrates the ways in which these approaches shed new light on the forces shaping the elite’s legal and political culture at a crucial time in the state building process, and give us a new perspective on the many and varied links between the region and the world.