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Author:

Suter, Mischa, author.

Title:

Bankruptcy and debt collection in liberal capitalism : Switzerland, 1800-1900 / Mischa Suter ; translated by Adam Bresnahan.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Bankruptcy--Switzerland--History--19th century.
Debt--Switzerland--History--19th century.
Capitalism--Switzerland--History--19th century.
Bankruptcy.
Capitalism.
Debt.
Switzerland.
1800-1899
History.

Other Authors:

Bresnahan, Adam, translator.

Other Titles:

Rechtstrieb : Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus 1800-1900. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on received practices until they were standardized in a Swiss federal law in 1889. The vast array of these practices was summarized by the idiomatic Swiss legal term "Rechtstrieb" (literally, "law drive"). Analyzing these forms of summary justice opens a window to the makeshift economies and the contested political imaginaries of nineteenth-century everyday life. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy; it is an argument for studying capitalism from the bottom up."-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

ISBN:

9780472132522
0472132520

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1162987948

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)