Overview
- History of credit mobilization before and alongside banks
- Terminology and framework for comparing credit markets
- Relevant to scholars in the humanities and social sciences
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)
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About this book
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. The volume operationalizes a common terminology and set of questions to allow for comparisons between the wide range of bank and non-bank credit arrangements across the globe and across time. It will be of interest to financial and economic historians, economists, and many other scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Keywords
- credit markets
- credit institutions
- lending
- informal markets
- investment
- trading networks
- Pre-bank credit markets
- non-bank intermediaries
- loans
- contracts
- credit transactions
- financial intermediaries
- market-makers
- financial legislation
- contractual infrastructure
- banking
- non-bank credit markets
- notaries
- credit associations
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Banks
Book Subtitle: A Global History of Credit Markets and Intermediation
Editors: Christiaan van Bochove, Juliette Levy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75819-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-75818-8Published: 31 March 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-75821-8Due: 14 April 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-75819-5Published: 30 March 2025
Series ISSN: 2662-5164
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 379
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Financial History, Financial Services