Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888.(Book Review)

Michael P. Costeloe. Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888. Westport, Conn.: Praeger; dist. By Greenwood Publishing Group. 2003. Pp. xxii, 359, $69.95. ISBN 0-275-97939-3.

This book about Mexican bonds and Mexico's foreign debt in the nineteenth century by a well published British specialist on Mexico's early national history is in fact a monograph on British investors and London financial circles from 1824/25, the dates of the first government bond issues by newly independent Mexico, to 1888 when finally that debt began regularly to be paid ...

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