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Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
- An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons
Engelsk
Bogcover for Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England af Alexander Wakelam, 9780367514297
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
266
ISBN-13:
9780367514297
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
036751429X
Udg. Dato:
29 apr 2022
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 23,4 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
29 apr 2022
Forfatter(e):
Paperback 2022
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Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective.

Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
266
ISBN-13:
9780367514297
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
036751429X
Udg. Dato:
29 apr 2022
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 23,4 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
29 apr 2022
Forfatter(e):
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