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Early Modern Debts

Author : Laura Kolb
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030597695
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Debts written by Laura Kolb and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies. The collection includes essays by leading international scholars and early career researchers in the fields of economic and social history, legal history, literary criticism, and philosophy on such subjects as trust and belief; risk; institutional history; colonialism; personhood; interiority; rhetorical invention; amicable language; ethnicity and credit; household economics; service; and the history of comedy. Across the collection, the book reveals debt’s ubiquity in life and literature. It considers debt’s function as a tie between the individual and the larger group and the ways in which debts structured the home, urban life, legal systems, and linguistic and literary forms.

Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City

Author : Michael Limberger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317322428
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City written by Michael Limberger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new research using documentary evidence from local and national archives from across Europe.

A History of the Credit Market in Central Europe

Author : Pavla Slavíčková
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000192229
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the Credit Market in Central Europe by : Pavla Slavíčková

Download or read book A History of the Credit Market in Central Europe written by Pavla Slavíčková and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. It outlines the issues of debts and loans in the Czech lands, Poland and Hungary, with respect to the influence of Austria and Germany. It focuses on the role of loans and debts in medieval and early modern society, credit markets in these countries, the mechanism of lending and borrowing, forms of credit, availability of loans, frequency of credits dealings, range of lending business, and last, but not least, the financial relationships inside the social classes and between them. The research presented in the book is based on a wide range of resources including credit contracts and agreements, evidence of loans and debts of courts, accounting of nobility, towns, churches and guilds, merchant diaries and Jewish registers, as well as other financial records. It covers a wide range of historical disciplines including economic and financial history, social history, the history of economic thought as well as the history of everyday life. It also contains a wealth of case studies, which offer, for the first time in English, a comprehensive and representative sample of the most up-to-date Central European research on the history of loans and debts and serves as a basis for a comparison with the other parts of Europe during the same period. The book is designed primarily for postgraduates, researchers and academics in financial, economic and historical sciences but will also be a valuable resource for students of business schools.

The Economy of Obligation

Author : C. Muldrew
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349268798
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Economy of Obligation written by C. Muldrew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an excellent work of scholarship. It seeks to redefine the early modern English economy by rejecting the concept of capitalism, and instead explores the cultural meaning of credit, resulting from the way in which it was economically structured. It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of exchanges, and that credit in terms of household reputation, was a 'cultural currency' of trust used to transact most business. As the market expanded in the late-sixteenth century such trust became harder to maintain, leading to an explosion of debt litigation, which in turn resulted in social relations being partially redefined in terms of contractual equality.

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit

Author : Klas Nyberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000282023
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit by : Klas Nyberg

Download or read book Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit written by Klas Nyberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. Luxury, fashion and social standing are intimately connected to consumption on credit. Drawing on data from the fashion trade, this fascinating edited volume shows how the concepts of credit, trust and bankruptcy changed towards the end of the early modern period (1500−1800) and in the beginning of the modern period. Focusing on Sweden, with comparative material from France and other European countries, this volume draws together emerging and established scholars from across the fields of economic history and fashion. This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.

Buying and Selling

Author : Shanti Graheli
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340394
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Buying and Selling written by Shanti Graheli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying and Selling explores the business of books in and beyond Europe, investigating the practices adopted by traders and customers.

Debt

Author : Peter Y. Paik
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300943X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Debt written by Peter Y. Paik and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring questions of what we owe—to corporations, to governments, to each other, to the past, and to the future. From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist’s dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations. “A welcome range of new perspectives on what has become a central issue for contemporary debate.” —Anthropological Notebooks

Women, credit, and debt in early modern Scotland

Author : Cathryn Spence
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996335
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Women, credit, and debt in early modern Scotland written by Cathryn Spence and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses court records to re-evaluate women’s economic roles in early modern Scotland.

Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City

Author : Michael Limberger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131732241X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City written by Michael Limberger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new research using documentary evidence from local and national archives from across Europe.

Debt, Updated and Expanded

Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612194206
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Debt, Updated and Expanded written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

The Character of Credit

Author : Margot C. Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521823425
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Character of Credit written by Margot C. Finn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Credit and Debt in Medieval England c.1180-c.1350

Author : Phillipp Schofield
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785704044
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Credit and Debt in Medieval England c.1180-c.1350 written by Phillipp Schofield and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2002-08-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume look at the mechanics of debt, the legal process, and its economics in early medieval England. Beneath the elevated plane of high politics, affairs of the Crown and international finance of the Middle Ages, lurked huge numbers of credit and debt transactions. The transactions and those who conducted them moved between social and economic worlds; merchants and traders, clerics and Jews, extending and receiving credit to and from their social superiors, equals and inferiors. These papers build upon an established tradition of approaches to the study of credit and debt in the Middle Ages, looking at the wealth of historical material, from registries of debt and legal records, to parliamentary roles and statues, merchant accounts, rents and leases, wills and probates. Four of the six papers in this volume were given at a conference on 'Credit and debt in medieval and early modern England' held in Oxford in 2000. The other two papers draw upon new important postgraduate theses. Contents: Introduction (Phillipp Schofield) ; Aspects of the law of debt, 1189-1307 (Paul Brand) ; Christian and Jewish lending patterns and financial dealings during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Robin R. Mundill) ; Some aspects of the business of statutory debt registries, 1283-1307 (Christopher McNall) ; The English parochial clergy as investors and creditors in the first half of the fourteenth century (Pamela Nightingale) ; Access to credit in the medieval English countryside (Phillipp Schofield) ; Creditors and debtors at Oakington, Cottenham and Dry Drayton (Cambridgeshire), 1291-1350 (Chris Briggs) .

Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England

Author : Alexander Wakelam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429647921
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England by : Alexander Wakelam

Download or read book Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England written by Alexander Wakelam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.

Of Bondage

Author : Amanda Bailey
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208226
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Of Bondage written by Amanda Bailey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, Of Bondage examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as comparable forms of property that impinged on one another at the moment of default. Amanda Bailey shows that the early modern theater, itself dependent on debt bonds, was well positioned to stage the complex ethical issues raised by a system of forfeiture that registered as a bodily event. While plays about debt like The Merchant of Venice and The Custom of the Country did not use the language of political philosophy, they were artistically and financially invested in exploring freedom as a function of possession. By revealing dramatic literature's heretofore unacknowledged contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Amanda Bailey not only deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period but also sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery. Of Bondage is vital not only for students and scholars of English literature but also for those interested in British and colonial legal history, the history of human rights, and the sociology of economics.

The Economy of Obligation

Author : Craig Muldrew
Publisher : Palgrave Schol, Print UK
ISBN 13 : 9780333625712
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Economy of Obligation written by Craig Muldrew and published by Palgrave Schol, Print UK. This book was released on 1998 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Accounting for Oneself

Author : Alexandra Shepard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191017442
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Accounting for Oneself written by Alexandra Shepard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social spectrum placed themselves within the social order, it pieces together the language of self-description deployed by over 13,500 witnesses in English courts when answering questions designed to assess their creditworthiness. Spanning the period between 1550 and 1728, and with a broad geographical coverage, this study explores how men and women accounted for their 'worth' and described what they did for a living at differing points in the life-cycle. A corrective to top-down, male-centric accounts of the social order penned by elite observers, the perspective from below testifies to an intricate hierarchy based on sophisticated forms of social reckoning that were articulated throughout the social scale. A culture of appraisal was central to the competitive processes whereby people judged their own and others' social positions. For the majority it was not land that was the yardstick of status but moveable property-the goods and chattels in people's possession ranging from livestock to linens, tools to trading goods, tables to tubs, clothes to cushions. Such items were repositories of wealth and the security for the credit on which the bulk of early modern exchange depended. Accounting for Oneself also sheds new light on women's relationship to property, on gendered divisions of labour, and on early modern understandings of work which were linked as much to having as to getting a living. The view from below was not unchanging, but bears witness to the profound impact of widening social inequality that opened up a chasm between the middle ranks and the labouring poor between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. As a result, not only was the social hierarchy distorted beyond recognition, from the later-seventeenth century there was also a gradual yet fundamental reworking of the criteria informing the calculus of esteem.

...and Forgive Them Their Debts

Author : MICHAEL. HUDSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783981826029
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book ...and Forgive Them Their Debts written by MICHAEL. HUDSON and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic journey through the economies of ancient civilizations, and how they managed debt versus social instability. Shocking historical truths about how debt played a central role in shaping (or destroying) ancient societies (viz: Rome), and that the Bible is preoccupied with debt, not sin, which has been disturbingly inverted in modern times.