Beyond Banks
a global history of credit markets and intermediation
$561.55
- Hardcover
379 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2025
Summary
Beyond Banks: Uncovering the Hidden World of Pre-Modern Credit
Scholars of credit markets have long focused on banks, but pre-modern as well as modern economies often relied on non-bank credit. This edited volume brings together international examples from across history that highlight how guilds, innkeepers, moneylenders, notaries, networks of family members and friends, and religious institutions – among others – mobilized credit before and even along banks.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783031758188 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3031758188 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance |
| Author: | Christiaan van Bochove, Juliette Levy |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 379 |
| Edition: | 2025th |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 148mm |
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About The Author
Christiaan van Bochove
Christiaan van Bochove is associate professor of economic and social history at Utrecht University. He is interested in how financial markets provided their functions when banks were either absent or not serving the majority of society. His research focuses on early modern and modern financial markets in the Netherlands and has been published, among others, in The Journal of Economic History and The Economic History Review.
Juliette Levy is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside and affiliated faculty at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico, where she co-directs MX.digital, a data digitization project of historical Mexican statistics. Her research explores pre-banking forms of finance and credit in Latin America. Her book The Making of a Market: Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900 was published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2012.
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