Poverty of Disaster - Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tawny Paul is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Exeter where her research focuses on the economic and social history of eighteenth-century Britain. She has published widely on the history of economic life as well as in the field of heritage studies. She is the author of numerous journal articles and co-editor of Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges (2017) with Rebecca Bush.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tawny Paul, Tawny (University of Exeter) Paul
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108496940
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49694-0
• Seiten: 298
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sozialstrukturforschung; European History, Social & cultural history, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social issues & processes, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Social and ethical issues, C 1700 To C 1800