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"""A really good historian as well as a really good lawyer, Kessler offers an accomplished and imaginative interpretation of the origins of liberal legal-economic market culture in eighteenth-century Paris.""—Robert W. Gordon, Yale University -- Robert W. Gordon “A Revolution in Commerce is an erudite, original, and compelling treatment of one of the great problems of modern historiography: the relationship between capitalism and merchant practices, on the one hand, and late eighteenth-century political revolution, on the other.”—John Fabian Witt, Columbia University       -- John Fabian Witt "". . . the first book-length study of the Juridiction Consulaire de Paris in nearly a century, and by far the best. . . . It will appeal to . . . anyone who hopes to understand the commercial bourgeoisie of old regime France.""—Thomas M. Luckett, Project Muse -- Thomas M. Luckett * Project Muse * ""Clear and persuasive. . . . offers access to the way merchants, and [their] communities . . . rethought the moral dimension of their own social practice. . . . makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the cultural mediations of commercial society.""—John Shovlin, Law and History Review -- John Shovlin * Law and History Review *"

. . . the first book-length study of the Juridiction Consulaire de Paris in nearly a century, and by far the best. . . . It will appeal to . . . anyone who hopes to understand the commercial bourgeoisie of old regime France. --Thomas M./i>--Thomas M. Luckett Project Muse

A really good historian as well as a really good lawyer, Kessler offers an accomplished and imaginative interpretation of the origins of liberal legal-economic market culture in eighteenth-century Paris. -Robert W. Gordon, Yale University -- Robert W. Gordon A Revolution in Commerce is an erudite, original, and compelling treatment of one of the great problems of modern historiography: the relationship between capitalism and merchant practices, on the one hand, and late eighteenth-century political revolution, on the other. -John Fabian Witt, Columbia University -- John Fabian Witt ... the first book-length study of the Juridiction Consulaire de Paris in nearly a century, and by far the best... It will appeal to ... anyone who hopes to understand the commercial bourgeoisie of old regime France. -Thomas M. Luckett, Project Muse -- Thomas M. Luckett Project Muse Clear and persuasive... offers access to the way merchants, and [their] communities ... rethought the moral dimension of their own social practice... makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the cultural mediations of commercial society. -John Shovlin, Law and History Review -- John Shovlin Law and History Review

Clear and persuasive. . . . offers access to the way merchants, and [their] communities . . . rethought the moral dimension of their own social practice. . . . makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the cultural mediations of commercial society. -- John Shovlin Law and History Review

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Amalia D. Kessler is associate professor of law and (by courtesy) history, Stanford University. She lives in Los Altos, CA.

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