The poverty of disaster : debt and insecurity in eighteenth-century Britain / Tawny Paul
- Bib ID:
- 8676030
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Paul, K. Tawny, 1982-, author
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
- ©2019
- 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages.) :
- ISBN:
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- 9781108752749
- 1108752748
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781108496940
- 1108496946
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
- Full contents:
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- The scale of incarceration : debt and the middling sort
- Credit and the economic structures of insecurity
- Social structures of insecurity
- Keeping in credit : reputation and gender
- Occupational identities and the precariousness of work
- Punishing the body : harm and the coercive nature of credit
- The worth of bodies : debt bondage, value and selfhood.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Subject:
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- Debt, Imprisonment for -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Debt -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Middle class -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Financial security -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Poverty -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
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- EBSCOhost
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