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Author:   Chia Yin Hsu ,  Thomas M. Luckett ,  Erika Vause ,  Enrico Beltramini
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781498505925

ISBN 10:   1498505929
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   14 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Credit, also known as debt, shapes peoples' lives and social relations in countless ways, and debt crises have enormous unexplored historical significance. Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas Luckett, and Erika Vause open a path for historians into this terrain and demonstrate how the world of global economics connects to the worlds of daily life. -- Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin

Credit, also known as debt, shapes peoples' lives and social relations in countless ways, and debt crises have enormous unexplored historical significance. Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas Luckett, and Erika Vause open a path for historians into this terrain and demonstrate how the world of global economics connects to the worlds of daily life. -- Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin By embedding credit and finance in their political, social, and cultural contexts, this book allows us to make our understanding of the economy much more complex. Together, the diversity of case studies-ranging from nineteenth-century reactions to bankruptcy in Switzerland to the financial crisis in twentieth-century colonial Zimbabwe-and an analysis that pays attention to the social and political stakes and to the nature of the agency actors can mobilized in very different historical contexts, offer ways to understand better the making of economic decisions which, finally, is what truly matters. -- Laurence Fontaine, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, CNRS-ENS-EHESS Paris

Author Information

Chia Yin Hsu is associate professor of history at Portland State University. Thomas M. Luckett is associate professor of history and former Chair of the Department of History at Portland State University. Erika Vause is assistant professor of history at Florida Southern College.

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