Bankruptcy and debt collection in liberal capitalism : Switzerland, 1800-1900 /

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Author / Creator:	Suter, Mischa, author.
Uniform title:	Rechtstrieb : Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus 1800-1900. English
Imprint:	Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subject:	Bankruptcy -- Switzerland -- History -- 19th century. Debt -- Switzerland -- History -- 19th century. Capitalism -- Switzerland -- History -- 19th century. Bankruptcy. Capitalism. Debt. Switzerland. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681700

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Other authors / contributors:	Bresnahan, Adam, translator. Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
ISBN:	047212885X 9780472128853 9780472132522
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-316) and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2021).
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.
Standard no.:	10.3998/mpub.11600140

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