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Debtor nation the history of America in red ink
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Title
Debtor nation [electronic resource] : the history of America in red ink / Louis Hyman.
ISBN
9781400838400
1400838401
9780691140681 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0691140685
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource ([ix], 378 p. :) ill. ;
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Series
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-364] and index.
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.
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