The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9781108496940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 298 str.

Tawny Paul

Opis

Examines debt insecurity in eighteenth-century Britain, a period of famously rapid economic growth when many people nevertheless experienced financial failure.

Recenzje

'… a vital contribution to study of eighteenth-century England and Scotland. This bold and conceptually wide-ranging study is focused broadly upon the lived experience of the transition to capitalism. … essential reading for all those concerned with this period or the history of capitalism more broadly.' Alexander Wakelam, Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Structures of Insecurity: 1. The scale of incarceration: debt and the middling sort; 2. Credit and the economic structures of insecurity; 3. Social structures of insecurity; Part II. The Insecure Self: 4. Keeping in credit: reputation and gender; 5. Occupational identities and the precariousness of work ; Part III. The Debtor's Body: 6. Punishing the body: harm and the coercive nature of credit; 7. The worth of bodies: debt bondage, value and selfhood; Conclusion.