Debtor Nation : : The History of America in Red Ink / / Louis Hyman.
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
72 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 10 halftones. 4 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- An Introduction to the History of Debt
- Chapter One. Making Credit Modern
- Chapter Two. Debt and Recovery
- Chapter Three. How Commercial Bankers Discovered Consumer Credit
- Chapter Four. War and Credit
- Chapter Five. Postwar Consumer Credit
- Chapter Six. Legitimating the Credit Infrastructure
- Chapter Seven. Securing Debt in an Insecure World
- Epilogue. Debt as Choice, Debt as Structure
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America