In the red and in the black : : debt, dishonor, and the law in France between revolutions / / Erika Vause.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Charlottesville ;, London : : University of Virginia Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- A revolution in commercial personhood
- Hard contracts and hard money: commerce, honor, and debt imprisonment in the Revolution
- The blessing of being judged: bankruptcy and the Napoleonic Codes
- The paradoxes of failure
- Risky business: banqueroute, faillite, and the culture of credit
- A palace of debt: constructing the debtors' prison
- The economy of discredit: Jean-Baptiste Bayle-Mouillard and the crusade against debt
- Imprisonment
- Remaking the commercial person
- Bankruptcies without bankrupts: commercial personhood in an age of speculation
- A discount on the future: 1848 and the remaking of financial responsibility
- Epilogue.