Colonial adventures : commercial law and practice in the making / edited by Serge Dauchy, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Albrecht Cordes... [et al.]

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-90-04-44293-1

EAN : 9789004442931

Droit commercial -- Histoire

Sociétés -- Droit -- Histoire

Droit coutumier -- Histoire

Classification Dewey : 346.0709

Dauchy, Serge (1963-....) (Directeur de publication / publishing director)

Pihlajamäki, Heikki (1961-....) (Directeur de publication / publishing director)

Cordes, Albrecht (1958-....) (Directeur de publication / publishing director)

De Ruysscher, Dave (Directeur de publication / publishing director)

Collection : Legal history library / series editors C. H. van Rhee, Dirk Heirtbaut & Matthew C. Mirow / Leiden [etc.] : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers , 2008-

Résumé / 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, 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"