The Cultural History of Money and Credit : A Global Perspective.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Creditworthiness and Credit Risks -- 1 Between Promise and Peril -- 2 Lenders and Borrowers in a Non-Capitalist Economy -- 3 Microfinance and the Progressive Generation -- Part 2: The Loan Market and the State -- 4 The Boundaries of Debt -- 5 Inventing Figures and Imagining Shrubs -- 6 Consumer Credit as a Civil Right in the United States, 1968-1976 -- Part 3: Money, Commercial Exchange, and Global Connections -- 7 Philippine Colonial Money and the Futures of Spanish Empire -- 8 Dubious Figures -- 9 Money and Autonomy in a Settler Colony -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.

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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