Tawny Paul

The Poverty of Disaster

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781108496940
• ISBN-10: 1108496946
• Artikelnr.: 56713932

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.