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Book SynopsisChapter 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.
