A Revolution in Commerce - The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover)

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 shed new light on questions about the relationship between commerce and modernity that are of deep and abiding interest to lawyers, historians, and social scientists alike. Kessler shows how the merchants who were associated with the court--and not just elite thinkers and royal reformers--played a key role in reconceptualizing commerce as the credit-fueled private exchange necessary to sustain the social order. Deploying this modern conception of commerce in a variety of contexts, ranging from litigation over negotiable instruments to corporatist battles for status and jurisdiction, these merchants contributed (largely inadvertently and to their ultimate regret) to the demise of corporatism as both conceptual framework and institutional practice. In so doing, they helped bring about the social and political revolution of 1789. Highly readable and engaging, "A Revolution in Commerce" provides important new insights into the rise of commercial modernity by demonstrating the remarkable role played by the law in ideological and institutional transformation.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2007
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Amalia D. Kessler
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-11397-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Commercial law Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Promotions
LSN:	0-300-11397-8
Barcode:	9780300113976

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