Credit and debt in eighteenth century England : an economic history of debtors' prisons / Alexander Wakelam.
"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 wit...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2021.
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| Series: | Perspectives in economic and social history ;
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