Joseph Stancliffe Davis

Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations (2 Vols.) Joseph Stancliffe Davis

The Corporation and its Relation to Legal, Legislative, Social and Economic Issues. Originally published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917. 2 vols. xiii, 547; x, 419 pp. Contains 4 essays: I Corporations in the American Colonies outlines the types of corporations that were established in the British colonies. II 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. III Th e S. U. M: the First New Jersey Business Corporation is a detailed study of a single manufacturing corporation during its formative years. IV Eighteenth Century Business Corporations in the United States summarizes the primary feature of the more than 300 business corporations chartered during the eighteenth century. This work is recommended by Julius Goebel for the study of colonial corporations. With a detailed bibliography and index.