The poverty of disaster : debt and insecurity in eighteenth-century Britain / Tawny Paul.
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 exp...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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