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The cultural history of money and credit : a global perspective /
In this collection, nine scholars present original research on the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the social and cultural significance of financial phenomena from a global perspective. Chapters emphasize themes of creditworthiness...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Creditworthiness and credit risks
- Between promise and peril : credit and debt at the pearl fisheries of South India and Sri Lanka, c. 1800 / Sam Ostroff
- Lenders and borrowers in a non-capitalist economy : Rio de Janeiro in the early nineteenth century / Mônica Martins
- Microfinance and the progressive generation / David Hochfelder
- The loan market and the state
- The boundaries of debt : bankruptcy between local practices and liberal rule in nineteenth-century Switzerland / Mischa Suter
- Invention figures and imagining shrubs : bank bureaucrats' lack of field experience in Mexico, 1930s-1940s / Nicole Mottier
- Consumer credit as a civil right in America, 1968-1976 / Enrico Beltramini
- Money, commercial exchange, and global connections
- Philippine colonial money and the futures of Spanish empire / Allan E.S. Lumba
- Dubious figures : speculation, calculation, and credibility in early twentieth-century Chinese stock exchanges / Bryna Goodman
- Money and autonomy in a settler colony : the politics of monetary regulation in colonial Zimbabwe, 1930s-1965 / Admire Mseba
- Bibliography
- About the editors
- About the contributors
- Index.