The History of Bankruptcy (eBook, ePUB)

Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe
Redaktion: Safley, Thomas Max

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Always a natural companion to capitalism, bankruptcy has become much more prevalent in the public consciousness since the global financial crisis. This volume, from an international set of scholars, focuses on bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but the great personal and social tragedy it has become.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135076597
• Artikelnr.: 42828971

Autorenporträt

Thomas Max Safley is Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A History of Bankruptcy and Bankruptcy in History Thomas
Max Safley I. Social Contexts 2. Merchants' Bankruptcies, Economic
Development and Social Relations in German Cities during the Long 16th
Century Mark Häberlein 3. Debt and Default in 18th-Century Champagne Tom
Brennan 4. Credit, Trust and Risk: Shopkeepers' Bankruptcies in
18th-Century Paris Natacha Coquery 5. Financial Networks, Migration and the
Transformation of the Merchant Elite in 18th-Century Stockholm Klas Nyberg
and Håkan Jakobsson II. Business Practices 6. Bankruptcy in the Kingdom of
Naples: The Case of Public Banks (17th-18th Centuries) Paula Avallone 7.
Learning from Others' Failures: The Rise of the Monte di pieta in Early
Modern Bologna Mauro Carboni and Massimo Fornassari 8. Bankruptcy and the
Bank: The Case of the 'kaiserlich königliche Wiener octroyierte
Commercial-, Leih- und Wechselbank' of Vienna in the 18th Century Dana
Stefanova 9. Boom and Crisis in Financing the British Transatlantic Trade:
A Case Study of the Bankruptcy of John Leigh & Company in 1811 Mina Ishizu
III: Institutional Developments 10. The Insolvent Zuchthaus as Cameralist
Dystopia Andre Wakefield 11. Bankruptcy in Early-Modern German Territories
Paul Fischer 12. Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Debt Collection among Merchants
in Antwerp (c. 1490-c.1540) Dave De ruysschen 13. The Reception of the
Actio Pauliana in Scots Law John MacLeod 14. Bankruptcy, Fresh Start and
Debt Renegotation in England and France (17th-18th Century) Jérôme Sgard