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The making of a market : credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 /

During the nineteenth century, Yucatán moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucatán and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United State...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levy, Juliette, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The local becomes global : from caste war to Henequen boom
  • Usury, ethnicity, and the market : national laws and local effects
  • What do notaries do? : the formal and informal roles of notaries
  • Credit the wife : marital property regimes and credit markets
  • Monopoly, continuity, and change : the case of Jos' Anacleto Patren Zavalegui.