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Credit nation : property laws and institutions in early America / Claire Priest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Priest, Claire, author.
- Series:
- Princeton economic history of the western world.
- Princeton scholarship online.
- The Princeton economic history of the western world
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Credit--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Credit.
- Credit--United States--History.
- Property--United States--History.
- Property.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource 247 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritising access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. 'Credit Nation' examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF PROPERTY AND CREDIT
- 1 Colonial Land Distribution and the Structure of British Colonial Commerce
- 2 The Backbone of Credit: The Institutional Foundations of Colonial America’s Economy of Credit and Collateral
- PART II. PROPERTY EXEMPTIONS: COMMODIFYING LAND AND SLAVES IN COLONIAL AMERICA
- 3 English Property Law, the Claims of Creditors, and the Colonial Legal Transformation
- 4 Parliamentary Authority over Creditors’ Claims
- PART III. MANAGING RISK IN COLONIAL AMERICA
- 5 Managing Risk through Property
- PART IV. THE STAMP ACT, INDEPENDENCE, AND THE FOUNDING
- 6 The Stamp Act and Legal and Economic Institutions
- 7 Property Exemptions and the Abolition of the Fee Tail in the Founding Era
- 8 Property and Credit in the Early Republic
- 9 Property, Institutions, and Economic Growth in Colonial America
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- A Note on the type
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 10, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691158761
- 0691158762
- OCLC:
- 1228505064
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