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The making of a market [electronic resource] : credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 / Juliette Levy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780271053967
  • 0271053968
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 332.70972/6509034 23
LOC classification:
  • HG3701 .L48 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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