Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Indebtedness and Insolvency in Eighteenth-century England -- 2 Enlightened Capitalism: Use and Structure of Debtors' Prisons -- 3 Coercive Contract Enforcement: Debtors' Prisons as Economic Institutions -- 4 The Debtor Economy: Obtaining Release from Debtors' Prisons -- 5 The Insolvency Acts: When Debtors' Prisons Failed -- 6 Private Enterprise: Operating a Debtors' Prison -- 7 Reform and the Unmaking of Debtors' Prisons
