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Debtor nation : the history of America in red ink / Louis Hyman.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyman, Louis, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumer credit--United States--History--20th century.
- Consumer credit.
- Debt--United States--History--20th century.
- Debt.
- Loans, Personal--United States--History--20th century.
- Loans, Personal.
- History.
- United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Economic policy--20th century.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s
- Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets
- How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments
- War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices
- Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity
- Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access
- Securing debt in an insecure world
- Epilogue: debt as choice, debt as structure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- OCLC:
- 704061611
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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