Colonial Adventures

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Main Author: Dauchy, Serge
Other Authors: Pihlajamäki, Heikki, Cordes, Albrecht, De ruysscher, Dave
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2020
Series:Legal history library.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
  • The Rhetoric of Commercial Law in 4th-Century bce Athens
  • Trading along Hadrian's Wall
  • Trade and Law in New Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Scots Traders and Spanish Law in East Florida
  • How to 'Mash Up' Lex Mercatoria from Civil Law to Common Law: the Genesis of Lex Mercatoria in Lower-Canada History 1760-1866
  • English Mercantilist Thought and the Matter of Colonies from the 17th to the First Half of the 18th century
  • The Transplant and Adaption of Company Law in Colonial Victoria 1850-1900
  • Company Law Transplants and Change in Colonial Southeast Asia
  • From Denial to Opportunity: Chinese Access to Colonial Law in the Netherlands Indies (1800-1942)
  • Corporate Law in Colonial India: Rise and Demise of the Managing Agency System
  • 'Neither the state nor the individual goes to the colony in order to make a bad business': State and Private Enterprise in the Making of Commercial Law in the German Colonies, ca. 1884 to 1914
  • Customs Law in the Congo: on the Fiscal Bargaining Process between the Colonial State and Private Enterprise in Africa (1886-1914)
  • The Birth of a Colonial City: Tianjin 1860-1895
  • Experiences and Experimentations: two Words between Two Worlds
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Places
  • Index of Subjects