Title: Colonial adventures : commercial law and practice in the making /
Authors: Dauchy, Serge; Pihlajamäki, Heikki, 1961-; Cordes, Albrecht; Ruysscher, Dave de
Year: 2021
Subjects: Commercial law History; Corporation law History.; Customary law History.; Commercial law; Corporation law; Customary law
Abstract: "Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. Illustrated by experiences in Ancient Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia, the book examines how colonial powers consciously or not reshaped the law in order to foster the prosperity of homeland manufacturers and entrepreneurs or how local authorities and settlers brought the transplanted law in line with the colonial objectives and the local constraints amid shifting economic, commercial and political realities. Contributors are: Alain Clément, Alexander Claver, Oscar Cruz-Barney, Bas De Roo, Paul du Plessis, Bernard Durand, David Gilles, Petra Mahy, David Mirhady, M. C. Mirow, Luigi Nuzzo, Phillip Lipton, Umakanth Varottil, Jakob Zollmann"--
Contents: Introduction : colonial adventures : commercial law and practice in the making / Serge Dauchy, Albrecht Cordes, Dave De ruysscher, Heikki Pihlajamäki -- The rhetoric of commercial law in 4th-century bc Athens / David Mirhady -- Trading along Hadrian's Wall / Paul du Plessis -- Trade and law in new Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Oscar Cruz Barney -- Scots traders and Spanish law in East Florida / M. C. Mirow -- How to 'mash up' lex mercatoria from civil law to common law : the genesis of lex mercatoria in lower-Canada history 1760-1866 / David Gilles -- English mercantilist thought and the matter of colonies from the 17th to the first half of the 18th century / Alain Clément -- The transplant and adaption of company law in Colonial Victoria 1850-1900 / Phillip Lipton -- Company law transplants and change in Colonial Southeast Asia / Petra Mahy -- From denial to opportunity : Chinese access to colonial law in the Netherlands Indies (1800-1942) / Alexander Claver -- Corporate law in Colonial India : rise and demise of the managing agency system / Umakanth Varottil' -- '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 / Jakob Zollmann -- Customs law in the Congo : on the fiscal bargaining process between the colonial state and private enterprise in Africa (1886-1914) / Bas De Roo -- The birth of a colonial city : Tianjin 1860-1895 / Luigi Nuzzo -- Experiences and experimentations : two words between two worlds / Bernard Durand.