Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 (1st ed. 2020) (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
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- Synopsis
- Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies. The collection includes essays by leading international scholars and early career researchers in the fields of economic and social history, legal history, literary criticism, and philosophy on such subjects as trust and belief; risk; institutional history; colonialism; personhood; interiority; rhetorical invention; amicable language; ethnicity and credit; household economics; service; and the history of comedy. Across the collection, the book reveals debt’s ubiquity in life and literature. It considers debt’s function as a tie between the individual and the larger group and the ways in which debts structured the home, urban life, legal systems, and linguistic and literary forms.
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783030597696
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030597689
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 01/01/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Business and Finance, Language Arts
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- Edited by:
- Laura Kolb
- Edited by:
- George Oppitz-Trotman
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