Before Banks

Before Banks

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Dermineur, Elise M.
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9781009502641
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This innovative work delves into the world of ordinary early modern women and men and their relationship with credit and debt. Elise Dermineur focuses on the rural seigneuries of Delle and Florimont in the south of Alsace, where rich archival documents allow for a fine cross-analysis of credit transactions and the reconstruction of credit networks from c.1650 to 1790. She examines the various credit instruments at ordinary people's disposal, the role of women in credit markets, and the social, legal, and economic experiences of indebtedness. The book's distinctive focus on peer-to-peer lending sheds light on how and why pre-industrial interpersonal exchanges featured flexibility, diversity, fairness, solidarity and reciprocity, and room for negotiation and renegotiation. Before Banks also offers insight into factors informing our present financial system and suggests that we can learn from the past to create a fairer society and economy.
EAN 9781009502641
ISBN 1009502646
Binding Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date January 31, 2025
Pages 300
Language English
Country United Kingdom
Authors Dermineur, Elise M.
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises
Series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series