Character of Credit. Personal debt in English culture, 1740-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Finn, Margot C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2003
- Pages 362pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Cultural representations of business
- Name Legal issues
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: legal aspects inc bankruptcy, indebtedness, etc
- Name Crime & misdemeanour inc fraud, theft & sharp practice
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the nature of personal debt and credit relations and the associated legal institutions and process that regulated this. Organised in three parts: 1] 'Debit and credit in English memory and imagination' - which deals with accounts of debt in literary works and personal documentation; 2] 'Imprisonment for debt and the economic individual' - which deals with the changing history of imprisonment for debt and thereby the changing nature of contractual obligations between debtor and creditor; 3] 'Petty debts and the modernisation of English law' - which deals with the 'changing strategies used by consumers to obtain goods on credit with the counter stratagems adopted by retailers to extract payment from recalcitrant debtors'