… of Americans to seek havens from the dangers associated with independent proprietorship.
Navigating Failure … the antebellum experience of bankruptcy by commercially inclined …

… 1841 Law, and, more generally, to insolvency. He also provides a fascinating description of
credit markets in the antebellum period. Balleisen has made an important contribution to the …

… In Navigating Failure, Edward J. Balleisen seeks to show how bankruptcy both sprang from
and helped shape commerce during the antebellum period. He clearly describes the wide …

… the rise of big business with a willing supply of white-collar employees (206). Navigating
Failure is an insightful contribution on the practical and cultural effects of an era of economic …

… more acceptable at the end of the antebellum period. The fact that many bankrupts were …
that bankruptcy hardly struck fear into the hearts of the middle class. Fear of failure may have …

… , business … bankruptcy as a remedy for commercial failure. Edward J. Balleisen's important
study explains the socio-institutional and cultural dimensions of bankruptcy in the antebellum …

… One facet of this was to find ways to navigate through the shoals of insolvency. The … society
of antebellum America. Perhaps the most significant impact of the brief life of the Bankruptcy …

… look more often at the long list of miserable business failures. Who failed, and why? And what
lessons could be learned from their failures? Now the masochists have something to cheer …

… spread bankruptcy on "business and legal culture" and "the evolution of America's urban …
He makes a strong and convincing case that the experience of failure in the antebellum period "…

… , especially those residing in the commercial classes, led to a … ways in which these men
“navigated” a complex web of cultural … of the antebellum period whose “success” and “failure” …