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Navigating failure : bankruptcy and commercial society in antebellum America
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Edward J. Balleisen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xv, 322 pages) : illustrations
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: risk and wreckage in antebellum America -- Perils of the credit system -- Guises of financial vulnerability -- Dilemmas of failure -- American jubilee -- The art of wrecking -- Fresh starts -- Return to proprietorship -- Sidestepping the credit system -- Epilogue: individual bankruptcy and the rise of American big business