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The Poverty of Disaster
Tawny Paul
其他書名
Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2019-10-17
主題
Business & Economics / Finance / General
Business & Economics / Public Finance
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
History / Social History
Social Science / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Social Science / Penology
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN
1108496946
9781108496940
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8KCsDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Eighteenth-century Britain is often understood as a time of commercial success, economic growth, and improving living standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The Poverty of Disaster tells their stories, focusing on the experiences of the middle classes who enjoyed opportunities for success on one hand, but who also faced the prospect of downward social mobility. Tawny Paul examines the role that debt insecurity played within society and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned commercial activity, livelihood, and social status. She demonstrates how, for the middle classes, insecurity took economic, social, and embodied forms. It shaped the work that people did, their social status, their sense of self, their bodily autonomy, and their relationships with others. In an era of growing debt and the squeeze of the middle class, The Poverty of Disaster offers a new history of capitalism and takes a long view of the financial insecurities that plague our own uncertain times.