Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888

by Michael P. Costeloe and Costeloe Michael P.

Within a few years of their liberation from Spanish rule in the 1820s, several of the new Spanish American republics floated loans in London's financial market. All the debtor nations, from Mexico to Chile, had defaulted within five years, a situation which resulted in their exclusion from European capital markets for much of the 19th century. Most studies of such debt approach the subject from the debtor's viewpoint, some arguing that the British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275979393
• ISBN13: 9780275979393
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.5"