Theater of a city : the places of London comedy, 1598-1642 / by Howard, Jean E. 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Credit, Incarceration, and Performance: Staging London's Debtors' Prisons --…”
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Metropolitan art and literature, 1810-1840 : Cockney adventures / by Dart, Gregory

Table of Contents: “…JOHN NASH AND THE METROPOLITAN PICTURESQUEON THE DECAY OF BEGGARS; STREET THEATRE; THE SUPERANNUATED MAN; CHAPTER 6: John Martin, John Soane and Cockney art; COCKNEY HISTORY PAINTING; SOANE, GANDY AND THE 'BOEOTIAN' ORDER OF ARCHITECTURE; A COCKNEY ELEUSIS; THE ECLECTIC CITY; CHAPTER 7: B.R. Haydon and debtors' prisons; HAYDON'S RELUCTANT COCKNEYISM; DEBTORS' PRISONS AND THE DEBTOR ETHOS; A LITTLE REPUBLIC; DEBTORS' PRISONS IN THACKERAY AND DICKENS; THE MOCK ELECTION; CHAPTER 8: Charles Dickens and Cockney adventures; THE PERIODICALS AND THE COCKNEY CLASS.…”
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In the Red and in the Black : Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions /

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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Founding finance : how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation / by Hogeland, William

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William Penn : a life / by Murphy, Andrew R., 1967-