Risk and Failure in English Business 1700–1800 (Paperback)

List of figures and tables; Preface; 1. Business enterprise in eighteenth-century England; 2. The bankrupt: friend or foe?; 3. Failure and the law; 4. The trend of eighteenth-century bankruptcy; 5. The structure of eighteenth-century bankruptcy; 6. Textiles, food and drink and merchants; 7. Fluctuations, the weather and cycles; 8. Bankruptcy, wars and financial crises; 9. Depths of failure and the role of creditors; 10. Contemporaries and failure; 11. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.