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Livre 62 sur 78: Perspectives in Economic and Social History

Wakelam, Alexander

 
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Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alexander Wakelam is an Affiliated Researcher of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. His research focusses on the economic and social history of Britain in the long eighteenth century and examines practices of exchange, work, and the experiences of economically active women.

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