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Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England: An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons - Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Wakelam, Alexander (University of Cambridge, UK)
Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England: An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons - Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Wakelam, Alexander (University of Cambridge, UK)
Throughout the eighteenth-century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy.
266 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 29, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9780367514297 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 266 |
Dimensions | 234 × 155 × 17 mm · 420 g |
Language | English |