Amalia D Kessler A Revolution in Commerce sku-6495937

Amalia D Kessler's A Revolution in Commerce is a hardcover listed under Ages 9-12 Kids' Books as sku-6495937. Drawing on archival research, the book examines the juridiction consulaire, or Merchant Court, of eighteenth-century Paris and the commercial law it applied. Kessler describes how merchants involved with the court came to understand commerce as private exchange sustained by credit.

Their arguments in disputes over negotiable instruments, status and jurisdiction contributed, largely unintentionally and to their regret, to the decline of corporatism as an idea and a practice. The book connects that change to the social and political revolution of 1789 and considers the relationship between commerce, law and modernity.