Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business : Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval to the Modern

Chapter 1. Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business - Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval to the Modern -- Part I. The Microcredit -- Chapter 2. Tanomoshi in 16th Century Kyoto: Some Brief Reflections -- Chapter 3. Microcredit in the Shop in Late Medieval Tuscany: A Credit Centre for the Poor -- Chapter 4. Small Credit and the Financial Revolution in England -- Chapter 5. Understanding Ottoman Microcredit Mechanism: The Case of Cash Waqfs -- Chapter 6. Between Conflict and Negotiation: The Loan on Pawn in the Kingdom of Naples: Birth, Evolution and Establishment -- Chapter 7. Shopkeepers and Credit Allocation: Consumption Credit in an Old Regime Economy (Buenos Aires, 17th to 19th Centuries) -- Part II. The Monte di Pietà -- Chapter 8. Moneylending in the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia: Microcredit Between Monasteries, Solidarity Groups, and Moneylenders -- Chapter 9. Two German Monti di Pietà – Microcredit in Early Modern Augsburg and Nuremberg -- Chapter 10. The Summer of 1903 and the Battle Over Small Loans Between the Monte di Pietà and Private Banks -- Chapter 11. Institution and practices of social assistant: Monte di Pietà of Rome -- Part III. Microfinance -- Chapter 12. Endowed Charities: The Microfinance System Used by Charitable Institutions in Catalonia (18th century) -- Chapter 13. Credit, Solidarity Networks and the Rural Poor in Pre-Industrial France -- Chapter 14. Making way for the Sparkasse – Institutions of Transition Between Personal and Organisational Credit in 19th Century Germany -- Chapter 15. Integrating Micro-finance and Philanthropy Through the Sandouq: Lessons Learnt from Jabal al-Hoss -- Conclusions.