The Making of a Market: Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850–1900

Index

Acevedo, Miguel, 60, 62, 80 agriculture, nonhenequen, 18 Aguilar, Bibiano. See Patrón Zavalegui, José Anacleto, clients of Aguilar, José Ceferino, 63 Alayón, José Antonio, 60, 62 Andrade, José, 60, 62, 80–81, 86, 121 Aranda, José Dolores, 60, 62, 80 assymetric information. See under information; notaries Ávila, Maldonado, Manuel, 59, 60–61, 63, 79, 81, 113, 121, 122, 131 banks Banco Comercial de Rio de Janeiro, 3 Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, 3–4 Banco de Londres, México y Sudamérica, 4 Banco de Santa Eulalia, 4 Banco del Avío, 4 Banco do Brasil, 3 Banco Hipotecario de Yucatán y Campeche, 47 Banco Mercantil de Yucatan, 34, 47 Banco Nacional de México, 4, 47 Banco Yucateco, 34, 47 charters, 3, 7, 34, 35, 47, 135 n. 5, 138 n. 1 commercial credit and, 3 competition with notaries, 48, 111–12 history of, 1–4, 7, 8, 17, 34, 47–48, 111, 112 loan types, 7, 46, 112 mortgages and, 7, 111 numbers of, 1, 4, 128 scarcity of, 1, 4, 7, 112, 128 short-term loans and, 112 Barbosa, Manuel, 60, 61, 79, 81 Bolio, Francisco, 49, 50, 51, 53 borrowers behavior of, 17, 66, 70, 72, 73, 82, 98, 114 characteristics of, 33, 98, 105, 129 loyalty of, 82–83 occupations of, 85 relationship with notary, 59, 66, 72, 83, 114 repeat, 82, 83 See also women, as borrowers Bourbon reforms and antiecclesistical sentiment, 38, 139 n. 10 and the church, 38 Brazil, 8, 12, 135 n. 4 brokers, 2, 4, 7, 39, 54, 65, 66 Calbeto, José, 60 Calero Cano, José, 131–33. See also probates Cámara family, 10 Cantón, Francisco, Pancho, General, 118–19. See also Patrón Zavalegui, José Anacleto, clients of Cantón, Ladislao, 60, 61, 79 capital markets, 1, 39, 41, 124 capitalism, 26–28 Casta Divina, 9, 69 Caste War, 19–21, 29–30, 118, 138 n. 30 Castillo, José Anacleto, 60, 63 Castillo de Villajuana, Candelaria, 91–92, 144 n. 15 cattle ranching, 1, 18, 50 Cauich, José Isabel, 52, 53 Cepeda Peraza, Manuel, 22 Chalé, Marcos, 52 cholera epidemic, 19, 20, 21, 30 church ecclesiastical/canon law, 35–36, 39, 42–43, 139 n. 11, 144 n. 22 property, 35, 37, 68, 142 n. 26 (see also usury) Cisneros, Angela. See Patrón Zavalegui, José Anacleto, family of civil law, 43 Civil Code of 1865, 37, 38 Civil Code of 1870, 38, 59, 145 n. 25; and article 1779, 103 Civil Code of 1884, 89–90, 91; and women’s property rights, 99 Colegio de Escribanos, 56, 57, 110, 140 n. 4. See also notaries, education of Index 160 IN DEX collateral, 47, 52, 54, 58, 65, 69–70, 82, 88, 96, 99, 102–7 information on, 59, 66 repayment and, 58, 59, 102 types of, 85, 86 Colombia, 11 colonial system, and colonial markets, 3, 8–9, 18, 27, 38–39 Commercial Code of 1884, 47, 135 n. 5, 138 n. 1 commercial paper. See credit, short-term constitution of 1857, 13, 21, 35, 39, 41 credit allocation by notaries, 126 increased supply of and demand for, 16–17, 39, 45 informal, 39 long-term (see mortgages) short-term, 46–47 (see also IOUs; letters of credit) use of, 16, 46–47, 84–85 volume of, 17, 85 See also mortgages credit market notaries and, 125 end of usury and, 36, 38–45 liberal Reform laws and, 13, 36, 39, 41–44 information and, 42 (see also under notaries) Juárez, Benito and, 34, 36, 125 reputation and, 64, 66, 83, 97, 101, 106, 111, 135 n. 8 (see also under notaries) regulation and, 34, 65 segmentation in,87, 142 n. 28 trust and, 2, 13, 69, 78, 82, 125, 126, 127, 147 n. 3 Cuba, 18, 137 n. 4 currency values, 139 n. 23 devaluation, 23 gold standard and, 23 Cuxim, José Maria, 51–52, 53 data collection method, 11, 12, 13, 16, 72, 74, 141 n. 11, 144 n. 13, 147 n. 9 de la Calleja, Manuel, 60, 61, 79 debt moratorium, 36 and international consequences, 36 and legal decrees of 1861, 36 debt peonage. See under Mayas; also henequen, Maya labor and default, 58, 59, 70 del Río, Francisco, 60, 61, 79 demographics in census, 19, 93, 146 n. 36 population distribution, 19, 93, 137 n. 7 dependency school, 8 deposits, 66, 110 devaluation. See currency values Díaz, Blas, 106 Díaz, Porfirio, 22...