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...

The early modern marketplace and its colonial encounter:A journey through early modern trading spaces --The market turned upside down --Remaking the marketplace:Making a colonial marketplace --The resurgence of early modern market value --Confronting the colonial marketplace:Revolution in the...