The Character of Credit
Subtitle: Personal Debt in English Culture, 17401914 (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521036498
Subjects: Economic History; Social History; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History; History - General History; History: World; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; Western Europe - General
First sentence: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novelists were obsessed with debt and credit.