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
