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The Making of a Market : Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 /

"Examines the functioning of credit markets in Mexico, through the agency of notaries, during the Yucatan region's nineteenth-century henequen export boom. Explores the mobilization of capital and the creation of credit markets before banks existed"--Provided by publisher.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Levy, Juliette, 1968-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.