Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations. 2 Vols

Book Description

2006. Davis, Joseph Stancliffe. Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917. 2 Vols. xiii, 547; x, 419 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774273. ISBN-10: 1584774274. Hardcover. New. * This collection of four broadly-conceived essays discuss the corporation and its relation to legal, legislative, social and economic issues. "Corporations in the American Colonies" outlines the types of corporations that were established in the British colonies. "William Duer, Entrepreneur, 1747-99" deals with the career of an important businessman who had much to do with several corporate enterprises, and whose activities reveal significant aspects of the contemporary business environment. "The S.U.M.": the First New Jersey Business Corporation" is a detailed study of a single manufacturing corporation during its formative years. The final essay, "Eighteenth Century Business Corporations in the United States," summarizes the primary feature of the more than 300 business corporations chartered during the eighteenth century. Recommended by Goebel for the study of colonial corporations. See Cases and Materials on the Development of Legal Institutions 418.

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