Bonds and bondholders : British investors and Mexico's foreign debt, 1824-1888 / Michael P. Costeloe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costeloe, Michael P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Committee of Mexican Bondholders.

Government securities--Mexico--History--19th century.

Government securities.

Investments, British--Mexico--History--19th century.

Investments, British.

Debts, External--Mexico--History--19th century.

Debts, External.

Bondholders--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Bondholders.

Committee of Mexican Bondholders--History.

Debt relief--Mexico--History--19th century.

Debt relief.

History.

Mexico.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

I. Mexican Bonds, Certificates, Debentures 1

1824 Five per Cents and 1825 Six per Cents 11

1831 Deferred Five per Cents: Deferred Six per Cents 27

1837 Active and Deferred Five per Cents 32

Customs Certificates and Debentures 44

Clandestine 1837 Bonds 51

1843 Five per Cents 54

1846 Five per Cents 58

1837 Five per Cent Deferred: Excess Bonds 65

1851 Three per Cents 71

1864 Three per Cents 81

1886 Three per Cents 90

1888 Six per Cents 95

English Convention Bonds 99

2. Dividends, Coupons, and Certificates 115

3. A Brief Postscript: The Fate of the Bonds 145

II. The Bondholders 149

4. The Committee(s) of Mexican Bondholders, 1830-1887 151

Origins, 1827-1830 161

The First Committee of Mexican Bondholders, 1830-1836 165

The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders, 1836-1850 175

The Committee of Mexican Bondholders, 1850-1862 183

The W.P. Robertson Committee, 1850 183

The Goldsmid Committee, 1850-1853 187

The Capel Committee, 1853-1854 194

The McGarel Committee, 1854-1856 198

The D. Robertson Committee, 1856-1862 203

Barings; The Committee of Deferred Bondholders; The Dutch Committee, 1862-1867 214

The Provisional Committee of Mexican Bondholders, 1867-1868 217

The Committee of Mexican Bondholders, 1868-1876 220

The Sheridan Committee, 1876-1886 231

Finance 247

5. The Investors 263

6. The Bondholders and the British Government, 1824-1886 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-348) and index.

ISBN:

0275979393

OCLC:

50333869