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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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
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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