Atlantic inversions -- A Creole industrial revolution in the Cuban sugar-mill -- El principio sacarino: purity, equilibrium, and whiteness in the sugar-mill -- From an infrastructure of fees to an infrastructure of flows: the warehouse revolution in Havana harbor -- Wrought-iron politics: racial...

Beyond time substitution : an evolutionary economic analysis into the patterns of cleanliness consumption -- Consumption behavior as a learning process -- The origin of the social norm of cleanliness -- Towards the modern washday : major steps in the development of laundry technology -- Consumer...

Klappentext: La historia bancaria es uno de los grandes ausentes en buena parte de la historia económica de América Latina, pese a la importancia que la banca y las finanzas ejercen en los procesos de desarrollo económico. Ello resulta bastante curioso si consideramos que los bancos mayores...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Gerald D. Feldman : an appreciation / Jeffrey Fear, Glasgow University -- Starting from scratch? : the beginnings of Banca Commerciale Italiana 1893-1894 / Peter Hertner, Marthin Luther University Halle Wittenberg -- Jewish financiers in...