In the Red and in the Black: Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France Between Revolutions

ISBN-13: 9780813941417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str.

Erika Vause

Opis

Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic legislation created a conception of commercial identity that tied together the debtor's social, moral, and physical person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of understanding the changing logic of commercial debt.