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A revolution in commerce : the Parisian merchant court and the rise of commercial society in eighteenth-century France /
This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive account of the juridiction consulaire, or Merchant Court, of eighteenth-century Paris. Drawing on extensive archival research, Amalia D. Kessler reconstructs the workings of the court and the commercial law that it applied and uses these to s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Situating the court : institutional structure, jurisdictional conflict, and the rise of a new conception of commerce
- The court's self-conception as a bastion of virtue : relational contracting and a community-based approach to procedure
- An equity-oriented view of contract : the court's resolution of disputes concerning sales, employment, and marriage
- Société and sociability : the changing structure of business associations and the problem of merchant relations
- A crisis in virtue : the challenges of negotiability and the rise of a new commercial culture
- Launching a national campaign: the administrative monarchy and the demands of Le commerce.