Navigating Failure
Subtitle: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780807826003
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Economic History; Finance; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Personal Finance; United States - Antebellum Era; History - U.S.; To 1865; Business/Economics; USA; Bankruptcy & Insolvency; History / United States / 19th Century; United States - 19th Century; 19th century; Bankruptcy; Economic conditions; Social mobility; United States
First sentence: Antebellum social commentators carried on a running quarrel about the culpability of all the bankrupts in their midst.