Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The Writings in Prose and Verse: Debts and credits
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of George Meredith
Author: Maurice Buxton Forman
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling: Debts and credits
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Alexander Wakelam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429647921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429647921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Works of Lord Byron, in Verse and Prose, Including His Letters, Journals, Etc
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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The Works of Lord Byron ; in Verse and Prose
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Works in Verse and Prose
Author: Alexander Pope
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author:
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Category : Popular literature
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
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Category : Popular literature
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author: Thomas Byerly
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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