1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras
ed. by Chauncey M. Depew ... Issued in commemoration of the completion of the first century of American commercial progress as inaugurated by the treaty ... negotiated by Chief Justice Jay and approved by President Washington in 1795.
Describes and illustrates the work of craftsmen and artisans in Colonial America. Shows types of work done in town shops and manufacturies, as well as, in homes, village shops, and country forges.
Furniture treasury : (mostly of American origin). All periods of American furniture with some foreign examples in America, also American hardware and household utensils. 5000 illustrations with descriptions on the same page
Publications of the Foundation for Research in Legal History, Columbia University School of Law
Notes
Bibliography: p. [314]-318.
Contents
Chapters: The Problem // Precedent Forms Of Association // Colonial Business Organization // Pre-Revolutionary Land Companies // Post Revolutionary Land Companies // Corporations vs Associations : The Business Community's Attitudes // Corporations vs Associations : Legislative Vagaries // Corporations vs Associations : Judicial Inertia
Lynn Iron Works -- Free Society of traders -- Frankfort Company -- Connecticut Copper Mines -- Principio Company -- Equivalent Land Company -- Land and Silver Banks in Massachusetts -- Status of the Corporation -- French and Continental Law -- 1748 Ohio Company -- Susquehannah Company -- Transylvania Project -- Companyof Military Adventurers Mississippi Company -- Illinois-Wabash Companies -- Ilinois Company -- Indiana Company -- Grand Ohio Company, or Vandalia -- Dismal Swamp Adventurers -- Lesser Land Project -- Ohio Company -- Yazoo Companies -- North American Land Company -- Asylum Company -- Eastern Land Associates -- Connecticut Land Company -- Fire Lands -- Gore Land Company -- Western New York Companies -- "Castorland".
Summary
"A treatise on the rise of the modern business corporation from early American land companies and the subsequent enactment of general incorporation laws in the United States." [from Amazon]
