The character of credit : personal debt in English culture, 1740-1914 /
Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbours, customers and tradesmen in tangled lines of mutual obligation. In this study of the social history of personal debt and credit, Margot Finn reveals the pre-eminence of social individua...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003
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| Series: | Cambridge social and cultural histories ;
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Table of Contents:
- Fictions of debt and credit, 1740-1914
- Debt and credit in diaries and autobiographies
- 'Mansions of misery' : the unreformed debtors' prison
- Discipline or abolish? Reforming imprisonment for debt
- 'A kind of parliamentary magic' : eighteenth-century courts of conscience
- From courts of conscience to country courts : small-claims litigation in the nineteenth century
- Market moralities : tradesmen, credit and the courts in Victorian and Edwardian England
- Pt. I Debt and credit in English memory and imagination
- 1. Fictions of debt and credit, 1740-1914
- 2. Debt and credit in diaries and autobiographies
- Pt. II. Imprisonment for debt and the economic individual
- 3. 'Mansions of misery': the unreformed debtors' prison
- 4. Discipline or abolish? Reforming imprisonment for debt
- Pt. III. Petty debts and the modernisation of English law
- 5. 'A kind of parliamentary magic': eighteenth-century courts of conscience
- 6. From courts of conscience to county courts: small-claims litigation in the nineteenth century
- 7. Market moralities: tradesmen, credit and the courts in Victorian and Edwardian England.