In the red and in the black : debt, dishonor, and the law in France between revolutions /

The France of Balzac's day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor-losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vause, Erika, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Temas:
Bankruptcy > France > History.
Debt, Imprisonment for > France > History.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Bankruptcy
Debt, Imprisonment for
France
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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