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Culture of Everyday Credit
Marie Eileen Francois
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Description for Culture of Everyday Credit
Paperback. Pawning was a common credit mechanism in Mexico City in the 19th century. A two-tiered sector of public and private pawnbrokers provided collateral credit. This book shows how Mexican women depended on credit to run their households since the Bourbon era and how the collateral credit business of pawnbroking developed into a profitable enterprise. Series: Engendering Latin America. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; KFFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Pawning was the most common credit mechanism in Mexico City in the nineteenth century. A diverse, largely female pawning clientele from lower- and middle-class households regularly secured small consumption loans by hocking household goods. A two-tiered sector of public and private pawnbrokers provided collateral credit. Rather than just providing emergency subsistence for the poor, pawnbroking facilitated consumption by Creole and mestizo middle sectors of Mexican society and enhanced identity formation for those in middling households by allowing them to cash in on material investments to maintain status during lean times. A Culture of Everyday Credit shows how Mexican women have ... Read more
Pawning was the most common credit mechanism in Mexico City in the nineteenth century. A diverse, largely female pawning clientele from lower- and middle-class households regularly secured small consumption loans by hocking household goods. A two-tiered sector of public and private pawnbrokers provided collateral credit. Rather than just providing emergency subsistence for the poor, pawnbroking facilitated consumption by Creole and mestizo middle sectors of Mexican society and enhanced identity formation for those in middling households by allowing them to cash in on material investments to maintain status during lean times. A Culture of Everyday Credit shows how Mexican women have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Engendering Latin America
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803269231
SKU
V9780803269231
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About Marie Eileen Francois
Marie Eileen Francois is a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands.
Reviews for Culture of Everyday Credit
"Both for what she narrates explicitly about everyday life and what she suggests implicitly about the historiography, consumerism, and patriarchy, Marie Francois has written a significant and thought-provoking book that all Mexican scholars should read and ponder."—William H. Beezley, Hispanic American Historical Review “Francois addresses an important issue that has never received much attention. She paints a vivid picture ... Read more