Poverty of Disaster

Poverty of Disaster

Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Paul, Tawny

Cambridge University Press

10/2019

298

Dura

Inglês

9781108496940

15 a 20 dias

540

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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.
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debt and credit; insecurity; financial crises; middle classes; social mobility; poverty; economic history of Britain; urban; prison; economic growth; capitalism; standards of living; failure