Navigating failure : bankruptcy and commercial society in Antebellum America /

Examining the shifting character of American capitalism, this volume explores the economic roots and social meanings of bankruptcy, assessing the impact of widespread insolvency on the evolution of American law, business culture and commercial society.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Balleisen, Edward J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
Series:Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state.
Subjects:
To 1899
Bankruptcy > United States > History > 19th century.
Social mobility > United States > History > 19th century.
Mobilité sociale > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Bankruptcy
Economic history
Social mobility
United States > Economic conditions > To 1865.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > Jusqu'à 1865.
United States
Samfundsvidenskab > Økonomi.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Risk and wreckage in Antebellum America
  • Perils of the credit system
  • Guises of financial vulnerability
  • Dilemmas of failure
  • American jubilee
  • The art of wrecking
  • Fresh starts
  • Return to proprietorship
  • Sidestepping the credit system
  • Epilogue: Individual bankruptcy and the rise of American big business.

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