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  title info:
    title: Debts unpaid
    sub title: two centuries of trouble and conflict in Mexico's economy
  title info:
    title: Two centuries of trouble and conflict in Mexico's economy
  name:
    name part: Walker, Louise E.
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 309 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Power struggles between debtors and creditors about unpaid debts have animated the history of economic transformation from the emergence of capitalist relations to the recent global financial crashes. Illuminating how ordinary people fought for economic justice in Mexico from the eve of independence to the early 2000s, this study argues that conflicts over small-scale debts were a stress test for an emerging economic order that took shape against a backdrop of enormous political and social change. Drawing on nearly I,500 debt conflicts unearthed from Mexican archives, Louise E. Walker explores rapidly changing ideas and practices about property rights, contract law, and economic information. This combination of richly detailed archival research with big historical and theoretical interpretations raises provocative new questions about the moral economy of the credit relationship and the shifting line between exploitation and opportunity in the world of everyday exchange."--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Little debts : justice and citizenship in small claims, 1810s-1860s -- Broken contracts: precaution and risk in litigation and law, 1860s-1870s -- Unworthy : economic information in credit reports, 1880s-1920s -- Bad cheques : property crime and the moral economy of financialisation, 1930s-1980s -- Asking for help : letters about fairness and dispossession, 1990s-2000s -- Conclusion.
  note: Louise E. Walker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index.
  note: CHA: Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, 2026
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: Debt
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Debt
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Debt
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Debt
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Economic conditions
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Dettes
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Conditions économiques
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Conditions économiques
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Conditions économiques
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Dettes
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Dettes
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Dettes
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Conditions économiques
    topic: Histoire
  classification: HC135 .W353 2026
  classification: 330.972
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge Latin American studies ; 140
  identifier: 9781009360449
  identifier: 1009360442
  identifier: 9781009360432
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  identifier: 9781009360425
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250313
    record change date: 20260308142204.8
    record identifier: in00005789263
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng