Book review: In the Red and in the Black: Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions

Claire Lemercier (1, 2)

1 CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS)
2 CHSP - Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po (Sciences Po)

Erika Vause, In the Red and in the Black: Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2019. ix + 324 pp. $45 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8139-4141-7. Reviewed for EH.Net by Claire Lemercier, Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po, Paris.

Keywords: credit; bankruptcy; Nineteenth-century France

Domains: History

Claire Lemercier. Book review: In the Red and in the Black: Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions. EH.Net, 2019. ⟨hal-02648831⟩