The Cultural History of Money and Credit

A Global Perspective
Herausgeber: Hsu, Chia Yin; Vause, Erika; Luckett, Thomas M.

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Produktbeschreibung

In this collection, nine scholars present original research on the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the social and cultural significance of financial phenomena from a global perspective. Chapters emphasize themes of creditworthiness and access to credit, the role of the state in the loan market, modernization, colonialism, and global connections between markets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781498505925
• ISBN-10: 1498505929
• Artikelnr.: 43750088

Autorenporträt

Edited by Chia Yin Hsu; Thomas M. Luckett and Erika Vause - Contributions by Enrico Beltramini; Bryna Goodman; David Hochfelder; Allan Lumba; Mônica Martins; Nicole Mottier; Admire Mseba; Samuel Ostroff and Mischa Suter

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Creditworthiness and Credit Risks Chapter 1: Between Promise and Peril: Credit and Debt at the Pearl Fisheries of South India and Sri Lanka
c. 1800
Sam Ostroff Chapter 2: Lenders and Borrowers in a Non-Capitalist Economy: Rio de Janeiro in the Early Nineteenth Century
Mônica Martins Chapter 3: Microfinance and the Progressive Generation
David Hochfelder Part 2: The Loan Market and the State Chapter 4: The Boundaries of Debt: Bankruptcy between Local Practices and Liberal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Switzerland
Mischa Suter Chapter 5: Invention Figures and Imagining Shrubs: Bank Bureaucrats' Lack of Field Experience in Mexico
1930s-1940s
Nicole Mottier Chapter 6: Consumer Credit as a Civil Right in America
1968-1976
Enrico Beltramini Part 3: Money
Commercial Exchange
and Global Connections Chapter 7: Philippine Colonial Money and the Futures of Spanish Empire
Allan E. S. Lumba Chapter 8: Dubious Figures: Speculation
Calculation
and Credibility in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Stock Exchanges
Bryna Goodman Chapter 9: Money and Autonomy in a Settler Colony: The Politics of Monetary Regulation in Colonial Zimbabwe
1930s-1965
Admire Mseba