Marie Eileen Francois is a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands.

• Introduction; 1. Hocking the Private in Public: Credit Policy, Housekeeping, and Status, 1750-1840; 2. Collateral Lending: Pulperias and the Monte de Piedad, 1750-1840; 3. Collateral Living: Consumption, Anxious Liberals, and Daily Life, 1830-80; 4. Brokering Interests: Casas de Empeno and an Expanded Monte de Piedad, 1830-75; 5. Positivist Housekeeping: Domesticity, Work, and Consumer Credit, 1880-1910; 6. Porfirian Paradoxes: Profit versus Regulation, Capital versus Welfare; 7. A Material Revolution: Militancy, Policy, and Housekeeping, 1911-20; Conclusion: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Politics; Epilogue: Still A Culture of Everyday Credit

"Both for what she narrates explicitly about everyday life and what she suggests implicitly about the historiography, consumerism, and patriarchy, Marie Francois has written a significant and thought-provoking book that all Mexican scholars should read and ponder."—William H. Beezley, Hispanic American Historical Review  "Francois addresses an important issue that has never received much attention. She paints a vivid picture of an urban commerce dominated by women and made possible by the credit secured through pawnbroking. One of the works' strengths is its multidisciplinary approach; it combines business and gender history, which should make it appealing to a wider variety of scholars. It is highly recommended."—Jeremy Baskes, The Historian

Marie Eileen Francois is a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands.

• Introduction; 1. Hocking the Private in Public: Credit Policy, Housekeeping, and Status, 1750-1840; 2. Collateral Lending: Pulperias and the Monte de Piedad, 1750-1840; 3. Collateral Living: Consumption, Anxious Liberals, and Daily Life, 1830-80; 4. Brokering Interests: Casas de Empeno and an Expanded Monte de Piedad, 1830-75; 5. Positivist Housekeeping: Domesticity, Work, and Consumer Credit, 1880-1910; 6. Porfirian Paradoxes: Profit versus Regulation, Capital versus Welfare; 7. A Material Revolution: Militancy, Policy, and Housekeeping, 1911-20; Conclusion: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Politics; Epilogue: Still A Culture of Everyday Credit

"Both for what she narrates explicitly about everyday life and what she suggests implicitly about the historiography, consumerism, and patriarchy, Marie Francois has written a significant and thought-provoking book that all Mexican scholars should read and ponder."—William H. Beezley, Hispanic American Historical Review  "Francois addresses an important issue that has never received much attention. She paints a vivid picture of an urban commerce dominated by women and made possible by the credit secured through pawnbroking. One of the works' strengths is its multidisciplinary approach; it combines business and gender history, which should make it appealing to a wider variety of scholars. It is highly recommended."—Jeremy Baskes, The Historian

Marie Eileen Francois is a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands.

• Introduction; 1. Hocking the Private in Public: Credit Policy, Housekeeping, and Status, 1750-1840; 2. Collateral Lending: Pulperias and the Monte de Piedad, 1750-1840; 3. Collateral Living: Consumption, Anxious Liberals, and Daily Life, 1830-80; 4. Brokering Interests: Casas de Empeno and an Expanded Monte de Piedad, 1830-75; 5. Positivist Housekeeping: Domesticity, Work, and Consumer Credit, 1880-1910; 6. Porfirian Paradoxes: Profit versus Regulation, Capital versus Welfare; 7. A Material Revolution: Militancy, Policy, and Housekeeping, 1911-20; Conclusion: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Politics; Epilogue: Still A Culture of Everyday Credit

"Both for what she narrates explicitly about everyday life and what she suggests implicitly about the historiography, consumerism, and patriarchy, Marie Francois has written a significant and thought-provoking book that all Mexican scholars should read and ponder."—William H. Beezley, Hispanic American Historical Review  "Francois addresses an important issue that has never received much attention. She paints a vivid picture of an urban commerce dominated by women and made possible by the credit secured through pawnbroking. One of the works' strengths is its multidisciplinary approach; it combines business and gender history, which should make it appealing to a wider variety of scholars. It is highly recommended."—Jeremy Baskes, The Historian