Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / Parker Shipton.
| Author/creator | Shipton, Parker MacDonald |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, |
| Description | xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Yale agrarian studies series Yale agrarian studies. ^A303919 |
| Contents | Introduction: a golden pendulum -- Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile -- Three faces of the loan : charity, usury-- and fantasy -- Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper -- Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty -- Untying a package deal : borrowing green revolution technology -- Debts and dodges : the moral and the hazard in repayment -- In a white elephant's shadow : reversal and repetition -- Wildfire : tobacco contract farming -- Self-help and the underground : individual incentive and the group guarantee -- Self-help with help : banking between charity and usury -- Crossing back : rethinking credit between cultures. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009050979 |
| ISBN | 9780300116038 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300116039 (cloth : alk. paper) |