Author: Peter HawkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fowling
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853
Author: Peter HawkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fowling
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Cavalry Journal
Author: The Athenæum
Author: Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Alexander WakelamPublisher: 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.
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: The Sandler Collection
Author: Victor SutcliffePublisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdCatalogue of the Central Lending Library
Author: Newcastle Central LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, CalcuttaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description