A Culture of Credit

A Culture of Credit
Author: Rowena OLEGARIO
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674041631
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In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.

Women Leaders in the Student Christian Movement: 1880-1920

Women Leaders in the Student Christian Movement: 1880-1920
Author: Russell, Thomas A.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608337219
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The SCM -- The "whys" of SCM's women leaders -- SCM committee women -- SCM general and assistant general secretaries -- Introducing the traveling secretary -- The ministry of the traveling secretary -- SCM short and long term pioneers -- SCM targeted student group pioneers -- Scm "warp and woof" pioneers -- SCM conference speakers -- SCM ecumenical pioneers -- SCM intellectual pioneers (biblical criticism and the social sciences) -- SCM social gospel pioneers -- SCM woman's movement pioneers (definition and causes) -- SCM woman's movement pioneers (benefits) -- Final thoughts