Esther Sahle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1241433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Sahle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Sahle |
| SIGNATURE | SAHLE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Training as a club good
Based on the extensive correspondence of the sixteenth‐century merchant firm of Tucher, this article casts pre‐modern mercantile training in a new light. Rather than training for seven or more years with one master, including a possible sojourn abroad, apprentices served a string of short‐term contracts with masters across different European countries. This form of organization raised the cost of training significantly. I argue that participants …
Free ports, political economy, and early globalization
Recent scholarship locates the origins of modern free trade policies in the early modern free port movement. This historiography has focused on the intellectual and political history of free ports and emphasized the importance of local and regional factors in shaping trade liberalizations in different European countries and colonies. Based on evidence from eighteenth-century Hamburg, this article proposes a different reading: it argues that free …
Legal Pluralism, Arbitration, and State Formation
Legal centralization in British America was characterized by the passing of arbitration from the community level to the colonial courts. As a consequence, when the 1765 Stamp Act raised the cost of court business, colonists were at a loss for alternatives. This paper addresses the question of why, at this point, colonists did not return to earlier, non-state forms of arbitration. It offers an explanation by providing a detailed empirical study of…
Law and Gospel Order
Trade in the early modern Atlantic grew a great deal. While acknowledging that this growth had important economic, social and cultural consequences, scholars have yet to fully explain its causes. This paper argues that formal religious institutions were key. Based on records from colonial Philadelphia, it shows how the Quaker meeting created a legal forum to resolve commercial disputes. The meeting enforced its verdicts by gathering and dissemina…
Quakers, coercion, and pre-modern growth
During the late seventeenth century, Atlantic trade grew dramatically. The New Institutional Economists attribute this to institutional developments. During this period, Quakers emerged as the region's most prominent trading community. Some historians explain this achievement as the result of the competitive advantage that Quakers gained from their formal institutions for contract enforcement. This article studies the London Quaker community to s…
Quakers, coercion, and pre-modern growth
During the late seventeenth century, Atlantic trade grew dramatically. The New Institutional Economists attribute this to institutional developments. During this period, Quakers emerged as the region's most prominent trading community. Some historians explain this achievement as the result of the competitive advantage that Quakers gained from their formal institutions for contract enforcement. This article studies the London Quaker community to s…
Quakers, coercion, and pre-modern growth
During the late seventeenth century, Atlantic trade grew dramatically. The New Institutional Economists attribute this to institutional developments. During this period, Quakers emerged as the region's most prominent trading community. Some historians explain this achievement as the result of the competitive advantage that Quakers gained from their formal institutions for contract enforcement. This article studies the London Quaker community to s…
Law and Gospel Order
Trade in the early modern Atlantic grew a great deal. While acknowledging that this growth had important economic, social and cultural consequences, scholars have yet to fully explain its causes. This paper argues that formal religious institutions were key. Based on records from colonial Philadelphia, it shows how the Quaker meeting created a legal forum to resolve commercial disputes. The meeting enforced its verdicts by gathering and dissemina…
Legal Pluralism, Arbitration, and State Formation
Legal centralization in British America was characterized by the passing of arbitration from the community level to the colonial courts. As a consequence, when the 1765 Stamp Act raised the cost of court business, colonists were at a loss for alternatives. This paper addresses the question of why, at this point, colonists did not return to earlier, non-state forms of arbitration. It offers an explanation by providing a detailed empirical study of…
Training as a club good
Based on the extensive correspondence of the sixteenth‐century merchant firm of Tucher, this article casts pre‐modern mercantile training in a new light. Rather than training for seven or more years with one master, including a possible sojourn abroad, apprentices served a string of short‐term contracts with masters across different European countries. This form of organization raised the cost of training significantly. I argue that participants …
Free ports, political economy, and early globalization
Recent scholarship locates the origins of modern free trade policies in the early modern free port movement. This historiography has focused on the intellectual and political history of free ports and emphasized the importance of local and regional factors in shaping trade liberalizations in different European countries and colonies. Based on evidence from eighteenth-century Hamburg, this article proposes a different reading: it argues that free …
Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Reputation (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Enforcement (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (2 works)