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Not a crime to be poor : the criminalization of poverty in America by Edelman, Peter B.

Published 2017

Table of Contents: “…Ferguson is everywhere : twenty-first-century century debtors' prisons ;…”

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Theater of a City : the Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642.

Published 2009

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Staging Commercial London: The Royal Exchange ; Chapter 2: Credit, Incarceration, and Performance: Staging London's Debtors' Prisons ; Chapter 3: (W)holesaling: Bawdy Houses and Whore Plots in the Drama's Staging of London ; Chapter 4: Ballrooms and Academies: Producing the Cosmopolitan Body in West End London ; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments.…”
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In the red and in the black : debt, dishonor, and the law in France between revolutions by Vause, Erika, 1982-

Published 2018

Table of Contents: “…A revolution in commercial personhood -- Hard contracts and hard money: commerce, honor, and debt imprisonment in the Revolution -- The blessing of being judged: bankruptcy and the Napoleonic Codes -- The paradoxes of failure -- Risky business: banqueroute, faillite, and the culture of credit -- A palace of debt: constructing the debtors' prison -- The economy of discredit: Jean-Baptiste Bayle-Mouillard and the crusade against debt -- Imprisonment -- Remaking the commercial person -- Bankruptcies without bankrupts: commercial personhood in an age of speculation -- A discount on the future: 1848 and the remaking of financial responsibility -- Epilogue.…”
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