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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.