Credit Nation : : Property Laws and Institutions in Early America / / Claire Priest.
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped pro...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of 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