Author: Peter Hawker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fowling
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853
Author: Peter Hawker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fowling
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fowling
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853
Author: Peter Hawker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Essays Introductory to the Study of English Constitutional History
Author: Henry Offley Wakeman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Athenaeum
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
1645-1647
Author: Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The academy
Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Alexander Wakelam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429647921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429647921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.