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This book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case studies from Europe and the Americas. The book represents a fi rst attempt to coordinate the work of different scholars working on credit networks and aims to explore the possibilities offered by social network analysis for the study of past fi nancial markets and networks.
Each contribution offers new perspectives for the comprehension of past fi nancial networks, with a broad chronological and geographical scope. The chapters are arranged thematically and study both rural and urban networks, each employing a network perspective to facilitate an increased understanding of the relational dynamics of preindustrial credit transactions. This book models the various ways that SNA can be utilized by economic and fi nancial historians, as well as discusses its limitations and ways in which it can be combined with qualitative archival research. The book is of interest to a broad audience of scholars in the fi elds of economic, fi nancial and social history.
Introduction / Matteo Pompermaier
Historical Social Network Analysis and Early Financial Exchanges / Elise M. Dermineur
Formation and Sustainability of Financial Networks in Early Modern Europe / Laurence Fontaine
Married Women in the Rural Credit Economy of Early Modern England, 1500–1700 / Hannah Robb
Credit and Social Networks in Late Fourteenth-Century Tyrol: The Village of Laas / Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler
More than Merchant Bankers: Second-Class Financial Intermediation in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam / Alberto Feenstra
A Differentiated Access to Credit in a Merchant Network in the 1780s (Philadelphia and Its Region) / Louis Bissières
Financial Intermediation and Networks in Early Modern Castile Fairs / David Carvajal
Moneychangers and the Local Credit Market in Late Renaissance Florence. A Social Network Analysis / Matteo Pompermaier
Monetization and Relational Structures: The Diffusion of Checks in Buenos Aires During the Emergence of the Banking System / Martín L. E. Wasserman
Notary Lending Networks in Northern Italy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Giuseppe De Luca and Marcella Lorenzini
Looking for Dark Matter Credit: Exploring Notarial Credit Markets in Antwerp and Its Surroundings ca. 1835 / Ruben Peeters and Rogier van Kooten
Index