1st Edition
Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Indebtedness and Insolvency in Eighteenth-Century England
Chapter Two: Enlightened Capitalism: Use and Structure of Debtors’ Prisons
Chapter Three: Coercive Contract Enforcement: Debtors’ Prisons as Economic Institutions
Chapter Four: The Debtor Economy: Obtaining Release from Debtors’ Prisons
Chapter Five: The Insolvency Acts: When Debtors’ Prisons Failed
Chapter Six: Private Enterprise: Operating a Debtors’ Prison
Chapter Seven: Reform and the Unmaking of Debtors’ Prisons
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alexander Wakelam is an Affiliated Researcher of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. His research focusses on the economic and social history of Britain in the long eighteenth century and examines practices of exchange, work, and the experiences of economically active women.
