The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914 - Couverture souple

Finn, Margot C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521036496 ISBN 13 : 9780521036498

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 individuals - men, women and children whose ability to engage in credit contracts was contingent upon their dependent social status. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, and paying particular attention to distinctions of gender and of class, Finn examines English consumer culture from three interlocking perspectives: representations of debt in novels, diaries and autobiographical memoirs; the transformation of imprisonment for debt; and the use of small claims courts to mediate disputes between debtors and creditors. This major study of personal debt from 1740 to 1914 will appeal to social, legal and cultural historians, literary scholars and those interested in the history of consumer culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Margot C. Finn is Warwick Research Fellow and Reader in History at the University of Warwick. She is the author of After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848–1874 (CUP, 1993).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521036496
• ISBN 13: 9780521036498
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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