Umfang:
1 online resource (452 pages)
ISBN:
9789004443075
Serie:
Legal History Library
Inhalt:
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.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789004442931
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004442931
Sprache:
Englisch
