Lester, V. Markham.

Victorian insolvency bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up in nineteenth-century England / [electronic resource] : V. Markham Lester. - Oxford : Clarendon, 1995. - 1 online resource (xii, 354 p.). - Oxford historical monographs . - Oxford historical monographs. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Bankruptcy--History.--Great Britain
Liquidation--History.--Great Britain

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