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The making of a market credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900

Title: The making of a market [electronic resource] : credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 / Juliette Levy.
Author: Levy, Juliette, 1968-
Publication: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012.

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Description

1 online resource (x, 164 p.) : ill.

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.

Uniform Title

Making of a market (Online)

Alternative Title

Making of a market (Online)

Subject

Credit > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Notaries > Mexico > Yucatán (State) > History > 19th century
Henequen (Plant) > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Yucatán (Mexico : State) > Economic conditions > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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