The making of a market [electronic resource] : credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 / Juliette Levy.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
- 332.70972/6509034 23
- HG3701 .L48 2012
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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