Alexander Wakelam

Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England (eBook, PDF)

An Economic History of Debtors' Prisons

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout the eighteenth-century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429650567
• Artikelnr.: 59613025

Autorenporträt

Alexander Wakelam is an Affiliated Researcher of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. His research focusses on the economic and social history of Britain in the long eighteenth century and examines practices of exchange, work, and the experiences of economically active women.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One:
Indebtedness and Insolvency in Eighteenth-Century England Chapter Two:
Enlightened Capitalism: Use and Structure of Debtors' Prisons Chapter
Three: Coercive Contract Enforcement: Debtors' Prisons as Economic
Institutions Chapter Four: The Debtor Economy: Obtaining Release from
Debtors' Prisons Chapter Five: The Insolvency Acts: When Debtors' Prisons
Failed Chapter Six: Private Enterprise: Operating a Debtors' Prison Chapter
Seven: Reform and the Unmaking of Debtors' Prisons Conclusion Bibliography
Index

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Indebtedness and Insolvency in Eighteenth-Century England Chapter Two: Enlightened Capitalism: Use and Structure of Debtors' Prisons Chapter Three: Coercive Contract Enforcement: Debtors' Prisons as Economic Institutions Chapter Four: The Debtor Economy: Obtaining Release from Debtors' Prisons Chapter Five: The Insolvency Acts: When Debtors' Prisons Failed Chapter Six: Private Enterprise: Operating a Debtors' Prison Chapter Seven: Reform and the Unmaking of Debtors' Prisons Conclusion Bibliography Index