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