The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England

by Craig Muldrew

Book Overview

This book is an excellent work of scholarship. It seeks to redefine the early modern English economy by rejecting the concept of capitalism, and instead explores the cultural meaning of credit, resulting from the way in which it was economically structured. It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of exchanges, and that credit in terms of household reputation, was a 'cultural currency' of trust used to transact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134926881X
• ISBN13: 9781349268818
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"