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03540aam a2200505 i 4500 001 EBAE7526C7F211EAB1F2873797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200717010022 008 191001t20192019enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019017589 020 $a 1108496946 020 $a 9781108496940 035 $a (OCoLC)1121100627 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a HV8651.G7 $b P38 2019 100 1 $a Paul, K. Tawny, $d 1982- $e author. 245 14 $a The poverty of disaster : $b debt and insecurity in eighteenth-century Britain / $c Tawny Paul. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xiii, 285 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in early modern British history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The scale of incarceration : debt and the middling sort -- Credit and the economic structures of insecurity -- Social structures of insecurity -- Keeping in credit : reputation and gender -- Occupational identities and the precariousness of work -- Punishing the body : harm and the coercive nature of credit -- The worth of bodies : debt bondage, value and selfhood. 520 8 $a Eighteenth-century Britain is often understood as a time of commercial success, economic growth, and improving living standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The Poverty of Disaster tells their stories, focusing on the experiences of the middle classes who enjoyed opportunities for success on one hand, but who also faced the prospect of downward social mobility. Tawny Paul examines the role that debt insecurity played within society and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned commercial activity, livelihood, and social status. She demonstrates how, for the middle classes, insecurity took economic, social, and embodied forms. It shaped the work that people did, their social status, their sense of self, their bodily autonomy, and their relationships with others. In an era of growing debt and the squeeze of the middle class, The Poverty of Disaster offers a new history of capitalism and takes a long view of the financial insecurities that plague our own uncertain times. 650 0 $a Debt, Imprisonment for $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Debt $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Middle class $z Great Britain $x Economic conditions $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Financial security $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Poverty $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Economic conditions $y 18th century. 650 7 $a Debt. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888768 650 7 $a Debt, Imprisonment for. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888804 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Financial security. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00924735 650 7 $a Middle class $x Economic conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01020444 650 7 $a Poverty. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01074093 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781108752749 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in early modern British history. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721014956.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EBAE7526C7F211EAB1F2873797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search