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Victorian insolvency : bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up in nineteenth-century England / V. Markham Lester.
- Title
- Victorian insolvency : bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up in nineteenth-century England / V. Markham Lester.
- Author
- Lester, V. Markham
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xii, 354 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This is a legal and financial history of bankruptcy in 19th-century England. The author offers a full statistical analysis of insolvency, imprisonment for debt and company winding-up, which demonstrates the validity of the notion that financial failure was a significant problem of the times.
- Series Statement
- Oxford historical monographs
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Oxford historical monographs
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-341) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction of 'Officialism', 1831-1856 -- 3. Insolvency outside Bankruptcy: Imprisonment for Debt in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Retreat from 'Officialism', 1857-1869 -- 5. Return to 'Officialism', 1870-1883 -- 6. Company Winding-up in Victorian England -- 7. Some Characteristics of Insolvency Levels -- 8. Aftermath and Summary of Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 019820518X
- LCCN
- ^^^94026036^
- OCLC
- 30667782
- SCSB-9952240
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library