Debts Unpaid: Two Centuries of Trouble and Conf. Walker, Walker, Paperback**

Name: Debts Unpaid: Two Centuries of Trouble and Conf. Walker, Walker, Paperback**
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Debts UnpaidTwo Centuries of Trouble and Conflict in Mexico's Economy\nAuthor(s): Louise E. Walker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009360432, 978-1009360432\nSynopsis\nPower struggles between debtors and creditors about unpaid debts have animated the history of economic transformation from the emergence of capitalist relations to the recent global financial crashes. Illuminating how ordinary people fought for economic justice in Mexico from the eve of independence to the early 2000s, this study argues that conflicts over small-scale debts were a stress test for an emerging economic order that took shape against a backdrop of enormous political and social change. Drawing on nearly 1,500 debt conflicts unearthed from Mexican archives, Louise E. Walker explores rapidly changing ideas and practices about property rights, contract law, and economic information. This combination of richly detailed .