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Victorian insolvency [electronic resource] : bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up in nineteenth-century England / V. Markham Lester.
By: Lester, V. Markham
.Series: Oxford historical monographs: Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 1995Description: 1 online resource (xii, 354 p.).ISBN: 9780191676536 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Bankruptcy -- Great Britain -- History | Liquidation -- Great Britain -- HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198205180DDC classification: 346.42078 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
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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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.