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

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• Assisted by: Chia Yin Hsu (Editor), Hsu Chia Yin (Editor), Thomas Luckett (Editor), Thomas M. Luckett (Editor), Luckett Thomas M. (Editor), Erika Vause (Editor), Vause Erika (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781498505925
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0592-5
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Monetary Economics, Credit and credit institutions, Credit & Credit Institutions