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Bankruptcy and debt collection in liberal capitalism : Switzerland, 1800-1900 / Mischa Suter ; translated by Adam Bresnahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suter, Mischa, author.
- Series:
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
- Standardized Title:
- Rechtstrieb : Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus 1800-1900. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bankruptcy--Switzerland--History--19th century.
- Bankruptcy.
- Debt--Switzerland--History--19th century.
- Debt.
- Capitalism--Switzerland--History--19th century.
- Capitalism.
- History.
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on received practices until they were standardized in a Swiss federal law in 1889. The vast array of these practices was summarized by the idiomatic Swiss legal term "Rechtstrieb" (literally, "law drive"). Analyzing these forms of summary justice opens a window to the makeshift economies and the contested political imaginaries of nineteenth-century everyday life. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy; it is an argument for studying capitalism from the bottom up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-316) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472128853
- 047212885X
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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