The American creed -- The women of the new nation -- Enterprise : commercial and social -- Republican mothers in action -- Social enterprise and the founding of American religious orders -- A market-based social enterprise solution -- The agonizing issue of slavery -- Individualism and social...

Chapter 1. Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business - Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval to the Modern -- Part I. The Microcredit -- Chapter 2. Tanomoshi in 16th Century Kyoto: Some Brief Reflections -- Chapter 3. Microcredit in the Shop in Late Medieval Tuscany: A...