The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern EnglandSpringer, 27 июл. 2016 г. - Всего страниц: 453 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. |
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The SixteenthCentury Growth of the Market | 15 |
The Structure and Practice of Marketing Activity and | 37 |
Transactions on the Market | 79 |
The Structure of Credit Networks | 95 |
The Sociability of Credit and Commerce | 123 |
The Cultural Currency of Credit and the Construction | 148 |
Unpaid Debts and Doubts about Trust | 173 |
Disputes and Levels of Litigation | 199 |
Debt and Downward Mobility | 272 |
The Contractual Society | 315 |
Counting Suits in Borough Courts | 335 |
Notes | 345 |
Bibliography | 414 |
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