Going the distance. Eurasian trade and the rise of the business corporation, 1400–1700

European interventions and for its suggestive observations about the place of property in European legal thought about global power. Few historians will disagree with Koskenniemi’s observations about the functions of legal imagination to persuade, illuminate power, and draw on materials at hand to respond to novel problems. Some may push further, and perhaps also challenge, specific assertions about property and rights in European legal discourse. Still others may define ‘home’ in radically different ways or emphasize continuities rather than differences among geographically centred traditions of European discourse. For its provocations about property and its broad coverage, the book will surely be mined by historians pursuing these and other scholarly agendas for generations to come.