TY - BOOK AU - Levy,Juliette ED - Project Muse. TI - The making of a market: credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 SN - 9780271053967 AV - HG3701 .L48 2012 U1 - 332.70972/6509034 23 PY - 2012/// CY - University Park, Pa. PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Henequen (Plant) KW - Mexico KW - Yucatán (State) KW - Notaries KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Credit KW - Yucatán (Mexico : State) KW - Economic conditions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780271053967/ ER -