| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford historical monographs |
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Oxford historical monographs.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction of 'Officialism', 1831-1856 -- 3. Insolvency outside Bankruptcy: Imprisonment for Debt in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Retreat from 'Officialism', 1857-1869 -- 5. Return to 'Officialism', 1870-1883 -- 6. Company Winding-up in Victorian England -- 7. Some Characteristics of Insolvency Levels -- 8. Aftermath and Summary of Conclusions |
| Summary |
Victorian Insolvency explores for the first time the financial, legal, and administrative aspects of insolvency in nineteenth-century England. V. Markham Lester gives a detailed statistical analysis covering bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up during the period, and traces the decline in the level of insolvency towards the end of the century. His thorough scholarship demonstrates just how significant a problem insolvency was for English society in the Victorian era. Dr Lester argues persuasively that random factors may have played as great a role as cyclical fluctuations in bankruptcy levels |
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Victorian Insolvency also traces the history of insolvency legislation and adds a new and important dimension to the debate on government growth by examining how the English legal system, through its administration of bankruptcy laws, increased the size and complexity of government bureaucracy. By the end of the nineteenth-century, the cost of administering bankrupt estates was one of the largest items of government expenditure. Dr Lester places Victorian management of insolvency in the context of other legal reforms, the relationship between the legal and business communities, and the development of the modern British state |
| Analysis |
Bankruptcy History |
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England |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-341) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bankruptcy -- Great Britain -- History
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Liquidation -- Great Britain -- History
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Bankruptcy
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Liquidation
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Bankrott
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Insolvenz
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Liquidation
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Faillissement.
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Liquidatie.
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Insolvabiliteit.
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Faillite -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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Liquidation -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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Emprisonnement pour dettes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191676536 |
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0191676535 |
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9786610767212 |
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6610767211 |
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9781280767210 |
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1280767219 |
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