The making of a market
Levy, Juliette, 1968-
The making of a market credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 / [electronic resource] : Juliette Levy. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (176 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9780271053967 0271053968
Henequen (Plant)--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Notaries--History--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--19th century.
Credit--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Yucatán (Mexico : State)--Economic conditions--19th century.
Electronic books.
HG3701 / .L48 2012
332.70972/6509034
The making of a market credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 / [electronic resource] : Juliette Levy. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (176 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9780271053967 0271053968
Henequen (Plant)--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Notaries--History--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--19th century.
Credit--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Yucatán (Mexico : State)--Economic conditions--19th century.
Electronic books.
HG3701 / .L48 2012
332.70972/6509034