Brill is publishing a new book on
the link between commercial law and practice and colonial expansion/maritime
trade.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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, whether 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.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Serge Dauchy is
Research Director at the CNRS (Lille) and Professor of Legal History at the
University Saint-Louis of Brussels. His main research topics are the history of
civil procedure, comparative history of central courts and the legal history of
Québec and Louisiana.
Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the
University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on the legal history of
Scandinavia, Europe and America, including Conquest and the Law in
Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern
Europe (Brill, 2017).
Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal
History and Civil Law at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is
especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history
and the history of conflict resolution.
Dave De ruysscher is Associate Professor at Tilburg University and
Vrije Universiteit Brussels. As a legal historian and lawyer, he specializes in
the history of commercial and private law of the Early Modern period and the
nineteenth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Contributors
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 fo 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
Index
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