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

"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

• 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

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

"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

• 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

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

"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

• 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