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.