“Government by Trading Company?: the corporate legal status of the Company of New France and Colonial Governance”

This article takes the Company of New France or CNF (1627-1663) as a case study to consider the legal dimensions of early modern chartered companies – how they established themselves, how they dealt with disputes, and how they exercised the regal powers delegated to them. Drawing on recent literatur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helen Dewar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2018-06-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
Subjects:
law
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/72105