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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 427–454.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Juliette Levy Abstract This article addresses how marital property regimes acted as obstacles to the development of the Yucatán credit market. Marriage is a contract, and historically it carries with it significant financial corollaries. Dowries, marital property regimes, and inheritance laws were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 285–316.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., Cinco haciendas mexicanas: tres siglos de vida rural en San Luis Potosí (1600–1910) , 2d ed. (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1980). Exceptions in the discussion of the role of credit in a broader sense are Hyland, “A Fragile Prosperity”; and Steven S. Volk, “Mine Owners, Moneylenders, and the State...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 519–546.
Published: 01 August 1985
... and small landowners, tenant farmers, and rural workers is overwhelming. Only recently have there appeared systematic studies of credit markets in general, and agricultural credit markets in particular, to provide a context in which to evaluate social and economic dimensions of debt agreements...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 507–509.
Published: 01 August 2013
... the Porfiriato (pp. 26 – 28). Porfirian Mexico’s economic growth was certainly remarkable. Had Levy extended her study to 1907, the year of Patrón’s death, however, it would have concluded with the cataclysmic crash of Yucatecan credit markets due to a railroad stock bubble abetted by political corruption...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (3): 585–586.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Paul Drake Historical Statistics of Chile: Money, Prices, and Credit Services . Vol. 4 . Compiled by Mamalakis Markos J. . Westport : Greenwood Press , 1983 . Tables. Bibliography . Pp. lxxviii , 510 . Cloth. $95.00 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 193–230.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Alfonso W. Quiroz Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 R ecent scholarly interest in the role of Spanish American colonial credit stems from the works and debates of the last few decades, which have focused mainly on ecclesiastical sources of credit. 1 The newest additions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 February 1984
...Eric Van Young Credit and Socioeconomic Change in Colonial Mexico: Loans and Mortgages in Guadalajara, 1720-1820 . By Greenow Linda . Boulder : Westview Press , 1983 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 249 . Paper . $17.50 . Copyright 1984 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 713–714.
Published: 01 November 2008
...William H. Beezley A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750 – 1920 . By Francois Marie Eileen . Engendering Latin America . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes. Notes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (3): 369–406.
Published: 01 August 1982
... of elite control over labor, capital, land, and political power? Specifically, how did the mechanisms of control evolve in regional societies moving from bondage to free labor; subsistence to commercial agriculture; church credit and specie to modern banking and paper money? These questions take...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 615–638.
Published: 01 November 1993
..., public establishments, and other corporate depositors. 57 El Obrero , Aug. 31, 1865. 56 Ibid. 55 El 20 de Julio , May 27, 1865. 54 Hyland, “Secularization of Credit,” 173. 53 El Constitucional de Cundinamarca , Oct. 15, 1851; El Pasatiempo , Oct. 27, 1852. 52...
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in From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 2010
Figure 4 Gold bernegal from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha . Photo credit: Dylan T. Kibler, Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 169–171.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Richard J. Salvucci Abstract Cliometrics, the union of history and economics, has impressive successes to its credit. But it also displays a worrisome disregard for historical nuance, sometimes to the point of caricature. “Bargaining for Absolutism” by Alejandra Irigoin and Regina Grafe looks...
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in Cuba Calls: African American Tourism, Race, and the Cuban Revolution, 1959–1961
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 May 2013
Figure 1 Joe Louis, with Fidel Castro and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós, wearing a guajiro (farm or peasant) hat on New Year’s Eve, 1959, at the Havana Hilton. Credit : AP Images.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 348–350.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Kathryn Burns Together these studies show the need for further research, especially on transitions from colonial, church-dominated credit styles to “modern” capitalist transactions (here the nineteenth century is both crucial and especially opaque). They provide a salutary reminder...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 February 2001
... Antropología e Historia, and the Fondo de Cultura Económica. This valuable collection of studies ranges widely across many of the uses, instruments, and impacts of credit in the economy of eighteenth-century New Spain. All of the essays are written by previously published authors, who weave together a variety...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 223–257.
Published: 01 May 2005
... Southeastern Brazil, Leff calculated, experienced real growth rates in the range of only 0.2 to 0.4 percent—still quite low. 3 The enormous weight of low-productivity subsistence agriculture, antiquated financial laws and credit instruments, low schooling rates, high transport costs, and declining terms...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 February 1988
... of Mexican society. The stated purpose of the volume is to trace the evolution of credit and banking in Mexico. Broadly, the essays fall into two categories: those that describe the credit system (or the lack of one) before the last half of the nineteenth century and those that concentrate...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 February 1993
... , 695. 84 See P. G. M. Dickson, The Financial Revolution in England: A Study in the Development of Public Credit, 1688–1756 (New York: Macmillan, 1967); and Leslie S. Pressnell, Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956). 83 Schumpeter, History...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 717–718.
Published: 01 November 1994
...John Jay Tepaske This tightly focused, well-researched book analyzes credit mechanisms in Lower Peru for the colonial epoch, particularly for the last 70 years before independence. Before 1750, clerical institutions provided perpetual or redeemable loans ( censos) at interest rates hovering...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 355–356.
Published: 01 May 2004
... credit efficiently finance manufactures? According to Steve Haber and Noel Maurer, the highly concentrated structure of the banking sector and the formation of limited-liability joint stock companies created an inefficient allocation of credit in the textile sector. By rewarding insiders, and not winners...
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