Navigating failure: bankruptcy and commercial society in Antebellum America
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2001
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Acknowledgments
l Introduction: Risk and Wreckage
in Antebellum America
part one. The Roots of Misfortune
25 1.
Perils of the Credit System
49 2.
Guises of Financial Vulnerability
part two. The Institutional World of Bankruptcy
69 3.
Dilemmas of Failure
101 4.
American Jubilee
*35
5·
The Art of Wrecking
part three. The Promise of Economic Rebirth
165 6.
Fresh Starts
183 7.
Return to Proprietorship
203 8.
Sidestepping the Credit System
221
Epilogue: Individual Batikruptcy and the
Rise of American Big Business
229
Note on Research Method
233
Notes
295
Bibliography
311
Index
The self-made man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the re¬
lentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also
ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent feature in the nation s eco¬
nomic landscape. In this ambitious foray into the shifting character of American capitalism,
Edward Balleisen explores the economic roots and social meanings of bankruptcy, assessing
the impact of widespread insolvency on the evolution of American law, business culture, and
commercial society.
Balleisen makes innovative use of the rich and previously overlooked court records gener¬
ated by the
1841
Federal Bankruptcy Act, building his arguments on the commercial biogra¬
phies of hundreds of failed business owners. He crafts a nuanced account of how responses to
bankruptcy shaped two opposing elements of capitalist society in mid-nineteenth-century
America—an entrepreneurial ethos grounded in risk taking and the ceaseless search for new
markets, new products, and new ways of organizing economic activity, and an urban, middle-
class sensibility increasingly averse to the dangers associated with independent proprietorship
and increasingly predicated on salaried, white-collar employment.
Edward J. Balleisen is assistant professor of history at Duke University.
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