The making of a market
Subtitle: credit, henequen, and notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900
By: Juliette Levy
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780271052137
Subjects: Credit; Notaries; Economic conditions; Henequen (Plant); History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The local becomes global : from caste war to Henequen boom; title: Usury, ethnicity, and the market : national laws and local effects; title: What do notaries do? : the formal and informal roles of notaries; title: Credit the wife : marital property regimes and credit markets; title: Monopoly, continuity, and change : the case of Jos' Anacleto Patren Zavalegui.