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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Juliette, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Credit--Mexico--Yucatán (State).

Credit.

Notaries--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--History--19th century.

Notaries.

Henequen (Plant).

History.

Yucatán (Mexico : State)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Yucatán (Mexico : State).

Henequen (Plant)--Mexico--Yucatán (State).

Mexico--Yucatán (State).

Physical Description:

x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271052137

0271052139

OCLC:

746618701