Financing the American Dream : : A Cultural History of Consumer Credit / / Lendol Calder.
Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 19 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. CREDIT, CONSUMER CULTURE, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
- PART ONE: GETTING TRUSTED: DEBT AND CREDIT BEFORE CONSUMER CREDIT
- PART TWO: GETTING THE GOODS: THE MAKING OF A CREDIT REVOLUTION
- PART THREE: GETTING CREDIT: THE LEGITIMIZATION OF CONSUMER DEBT
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index