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ONLINE

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010

1 online resource (xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates) : ill., map

ISBN 9780300162929 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0300116039 (cloth alk. paper)

ISBN 9780300116038 (cloth alk. paper)

Yale agrarian studies series

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index

Introduction: a golden pendulum -- Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile -- Three faces of the loan : charity, usury-- and fantasy -- Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper -- Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty -- Untying a package deal : borrowing green revolution technology -- Debts and dodges : the moral and the hazard in repayment -- In a white elephant’s shadow : reversal and repetition -- Wildfire : tobacco contract farming -- Self-help and the underground : individual incentive and the group guarantee -- Self-help with help : banking between charity and usury -- Crossing back : rethinking credit between cultures.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)801194715