Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism (eBook)

Switzerland, 1800-1900

Mischa Suter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
9780472128853 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;Rechtstrieb"e; (literally, "e;law drive"e;). 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• ISBN-13: 9780472128853 / 9780472128853